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Malacoctenus ebisui Springer, 1959
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Malacoctenus ebisui
© Copyright Ross Robertson, 2006 · 12
Malacoctenus ebisui

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Malacoctenus ebisui
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Malacoctenus ebisui
Malacoctenus ebisui
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Malacoctenus ebisui

Malacoctenus ebisui
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Malacoctenus ebisui
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Overview
Main identification features
  • dorsal fin has 19 spines
  • male: back - 3 black blotches; lower 1/2 cream
  • female: yellowish, diffuse bars, many white dots
  • a: 19
Dorsal rays XIX to XXI, 10-12 (usually XX, 11); anal rays II, 18-21 (usually 19); pectoral rays 14; lateral-line scales 52-58; scales present in front of dorsal fin, also on breast of males; scales absent from prepectoral region; jaws with single row of large conical teeth; teeth on front of roof of mouth; cirri present on nostrils, above eye, and on nape; chin with 1-2 pores.

Males brown to reddish brown on back with 2-3 large black patches posteriorly, belly greenish, with tiny white spots; female brownish above, yellowish below, with several diffuse brownish bars across side, with many white spots.


Size: attains 6.5 cm.

Habitat: rocky and rubble bottoms.

Depth: 1-18 m.

The lower half of Baja, Mazatlan to Panama, Malpelo.


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: 18 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic worms.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=30; Southern limit=3; Western limit=-116; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=27; Longitudinal range=38.
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: Macroalgae; 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: 6.5 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); TEP endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Madrid Vera , J. , Ruíz Luna , A. and Rosado Bravo, I., 1998., Peces de la plataforma continental de Michoacán y sus relaciones regionales en el Pacífico mexicano., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 42(2):267-276.
  • Rubio, E.A., 1986., Notas sobre la ictiofauna de la Isla de Gorgona, Colombia., Boletin Ecotropica. Univ. Bog. Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 13:86-112.
  • Springer, V. G., 1959., Systematics and zoogeography of the clinid fishes of the subtribe Labrisomini Hubbs., Pubs. Inst. Mar. Sci. Univ. Texas,, 5:417-492.
  • Thomson , D.A. , Findley , L.T. and Kerstitch, A.N., 2000., Reef fishes of the Sea of Cortez., University of Texas Press(Revised Ed.):353.
  • Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224.

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