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Main identification features
- snout overhanging, underneath with folds
- d: origin on head
- tail tip soft, with c
- head and lower jaw: dense papillae
- head pores raised
- no pectorals
Long, cylindrical, wormlike; tail fin present, visible, confluent with dorsal and anal fins; tail tip flexible; front nostril tubular, points down; rear nostril in elongate slit covered with a skin flap, on underside of top lip just before eye; eye very small, nearer end of mouth than tip of snout; top of head and snout covered with many small, hair-like papillae, especially on snout and between eyes; pores on head are raised; anal fin low; head pointed with snout projecting well beyond mouth, with folds on underside; teeth on jaws and vomer uniserial, small, conical slightly curved; two teeth between top jaws and 2-4 on vomer; pectorals absent; gill openings low on sides, almost vertical, curved; gill pouch puffed out; dorsal fin low anteriorly, higher and in groove posteriorly; dorsal origin on head before gill opening; tail = 42% of total length; lateral line pores prominent, extends onto head over eye and onto snout, branching around rear of eye and along top jaw, and with large pores along side of lower jaw.
Uniform light yellow.
Size: 12 cm.
Habitat: mud and sand bottoms.
Depth: 20-85 m.
Costa Rica.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 85 m.
Depth Range Min: 20 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=9; Southern limit=9; Western limit=-84; Eastern limit=-83; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=1.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Mud; Soft bottom only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 12 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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- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen III. Vertebrados - Parte 2., FAO3:1201-1813.
- 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.
- Myers , G.S. and Wade, C.B., 1941., Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the Pacific coast of tropical America., Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 9(4):65-111.
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