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Overview |
Main identification features
- body and head: dense tiny black dots
- tail tip with small c
- pectoral less than less than eye
Elongate, slender, slightly compressed; head flexed down before gill openings; snout very short (~12% of head length); eye relatively large; mouth very oblique; upper lips with well developed flanges joined across midline; lower jaw slightly projecting, with well defined lips; front nostril a minute tube within top lip near midline; rear nostril a simple opening near upper front corner of eye; pectoral a small (<
Light cream body and fins, body and median fins densely covered with minute dark dots; dots smaller and less regularly arranged than in Gorgasia punctata.
Size: to 63 cm.
Habitat: clean sand bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m.
The tip of Baja California to Panama.
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: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: zooplankton; pelagic fish eggs.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=25; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-111; Eastern limit=-81; Latitudinal range=17; Longitudinal range=30.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Sand & gravel; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 63 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; 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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- Castle, P. H. J., 1999., A new species of garden eel from the eastern Pacific with comments on *Heteroconger digueti* (Pellegrin) and related nominal species., Bull. Mar. Sci., 64:407-417.
- Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo . Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
- 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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