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Overview |
Main identification features
- dark + blue lines (head - 2, body - 3)
- d: high, sail-like
Elongate, compressed, tapering body; large bulbous head, eye large, high; front nostril without cirrus; top margin of operculum straight, without flap at rear; mouth at front, large, extends well to rear of eye; no cirrus at front nostril; top jaw long, reaches well behind eye, with fringe at rear, pointed tip in female, long blunt extension to belly in male; lips without inner papillae; lateral line on front half of body only, high, ends under 3rd dorsal soft ray, 72-73 pores; a triangular patch of 9 teeth at front of roof of mouth; no papillae between tooth rows; 41-47 rakers on first gill arch; dorsal fin high and sail-like, middle of spiny part as high as body depth, XI,13; anal fin III, 13; pectoral 20-21; tail fin straight; head and body before base of pectoral fin scaleless, scaly thereafter; 102-105 oblique scale rows.
Dark grey body and all fins, a little lighter on belly, upper tail membranes pale; female paler than male; 3 violet-blue lines along side and another along back just under base of dorsal fin, all reaching to tail; head with 2 blue stripes on side, a blue blotch at top rear corner of operculum, a blue line along top jaw; tail fin with thin blue bar at base and blue lines on membranes between fin rays; pelvic with blue front border; anal fin with blue outer edge and blue on membranes between rays; no obvious color inside mouth. An individual collected at Costa Rica lacked the blue markings on the body and fins and had a row of 10 dark spots along the outer edge of the dorsal fin.
Size: 27 cm.
Habitat: burrows in sand and rubble.
Depth: 63-74 m.
Costa Rica to Colombia.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 75 m.
Depth Range Min: 60 m.
Diet: pelagic fish larvae; zooplankton; bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic worms; octopus/squid/cuttlefish.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=9; Southern limit=3; Western limit=-84; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=6; Longitudinal range=6.
Egg Type: Brooded; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Planktivore; Carnivore.
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: 27 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; 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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- Acero , A. and Franke, R., 1993., Una Nueva Especie de Opistognathus (Pisces: Perciformes) para la Isla de Gorgona (Pacífico Colombiano)., Caldasia, 17:291-293.
- Acero, A. and Franke, R., 2001., Peces del parque nacional natural Gorgona. En: Barrios, L. M. y M. Lopéz-Victoria (Eds.). Gorgona marina: Contribución al conocimiento de una isla única., INVEMAR, Serie Publicaciones Especiales No. 7:123-131.
- Bussing, W.A and Lavenberg, R.J., 2003., Four new species of eastern tropical Pacific jawfishes (Opistognathus: Opistognathidae)., Rev. Biol. Trop., 51:529-550.
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