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Main identification features
- top lip - no papillae
- front dorsal fin - dark spot
- dense light brown spots, rear - faint bars
Body well depressed; head large, broad, well depressed; snout with rounded profile; a large fleshy pad with free rear edge at base of pectoral fin; rear nostril over front edge of eye, front nostril with a large 2-lobed flap; top jaw with irregular outer row of pointed teeth, & a patch of irregular teeth behind them, a row of canines along side; teeth on lower jaw in 2 rows, outer row larger, 3 pairs of chisel-like (3-pointed in juveniles) incisors at front, followed by row of large canines; papillae on head small, none along top lip; 5-6 small rakers on 2nd and 3rd gill arches; anus ~midway between anal fin origin and sucker; pectoral 21-23 rays; sucker with 4-8 rows of papillae across front section, 2 widely separated patches in center; dorsal fin medium length, 10-12 rays; anal 8-10 rays; tail 10-12 rays.
Top and sides covered with small dense light brown spots; faint wide dark brown bars on rear 1/2 of body; dorsal with dark spot at front base:; dorsal, tail and anal light brown with clear margins; pectoral rays with small brown spots; undersurface with scattered brown dots.
Size: 7.6 cm.
Habitat: intertidal, enters freshwater.
Depth: 0-10 m?.
El Salvador to Colombia.
Briggs (1955) separated this species into 3 subspecies, G. daedaleus daedaleus, G. d. brachysoma, and G. d. boreus, based on variation in (a) the extent of development in papillae on upper lip margin, (b) eye size, (c) head width, (d) the number and size of papillae at the front of the sucker, (e) the location of the dorsal fin, and (f) the number of anal rays.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic worms.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=14; Southern limit=3; Western limit=-89; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=11; Longitudinal range=11.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 7.6 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Panamic province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Briggs, J.C., 1951., A review of the clingfishes (Gobiesocidae) of the Eastern Pacific with descriptions of new species., Proceedings of the California Zoological Club, 1:57-108.
- Briggs, J.C., 1955., A monograph of the clingfishes (Order Xenopterygii)., Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., 6:1-224.
- Cuesta, T.C., 1932., Lista de los peces de las costas de la Baja California., Inst. Biol. Mexico, Anal, 3(1):75-80.
- Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26.
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