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Main identification features
Elongate, head and body compressed; tip of tail a hard finless point; dorsal and anal fins low but distinct; pectorals absent; dorsal fin origin on head, behind eye; gill openings oblique slits low on side, converging forwards; gill chamber a slightly expanded pouch; head, nape, snout and lower jaw densely covered with papillae; underside of pointed snout with complex folds but without central groove; anterior nostrils tubular, pointing down; rear nostril a slit in top lip under eye that opens into mouth; lateral line pores on head raised, larger than head papillae; teeth small and pointed, hidden in folds of skin, single row on jaws, none on roof of mouth, which is covered in papillae.
Color in preservative brown, paler below, fins white.
Size: 18 cm.
Habitat: sandy bottoms.
Depth: 55 m.
Jalisco ( Mexico).
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 55 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=20; Southern limit=20; Western limit=-106; Eastern limit=-105; 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: Mud; 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: 18 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Mexican 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.
- Rosenblatt , R.H. and McCosker, J.E., 1970., A key to the genera of the ophichthid eels, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the eastern Pacific., Pac. Sci., 24:494-505.
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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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