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Overview |
Main identification features
- brown + white spots, tail spots less than eye, round
- tail: not very slender
- rear teeth serrated
A moderately deep-bodied species; eye slightly before middle of mouth; front nostril tubular, near tip of snout; rear nostril with slightly raised rim, at upper front edge of eye; 4 conspicuous pores below eye, 3 smaller ones above; jaws equal length, or lower slightly longer; teeth sharp & slender, with strong serrations on rear edge, in single row on each jaw, usually 1 fang in middle of front of top of mouth; gill opening an oblique slit, at or slightly above midline; tail about 2 total length, gradually tapering, compressed at rear, not very slender.
Medium to dark brown, becoming darker at rear; body and tail overlaid by white dots that become larger at the rear; spots on tail are round and smaller than eye; eyes rimmed with dark, head pores ringed with dark; dorsal fin white spotted, anal dark, with few or no spots; white spots may extend onto snout in juveniles
G. equatorialis is similar, but has 3 pores below the eye, a narrower tail, and the spots at the rear of the tail are elongate and much larger than the eye.
Size: reaches 93 cm.
Habitat: benthic on soft bottoms.
Depth: at 25-295 m.
The tip of Baja California and the SE Gulf of California to Peru.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 295 m.
Depth Range Min: 25 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=24; Southern limit=-5; Western limit=-111; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=29; Longitudinal range=33.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Sand & gravel.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 93 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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References |
- Bussing, W.A., 1998., Gymnothorax phalarus, a new eastern Pacific moray eel (Pisces: Muraenidae)., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 46:439-446.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
- Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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