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Overview |
Main identification features
- front nostril - bushy cirrus
- body: 6 bars
- dorsal fin has 15-17 rays, black spot at front
- inside rear top jaw: black v, + white and red
Head wide and robust, body compressed; front nostril with a large opening and a long cirrus with 4-6 branches; top margin of operculum expanded above in a broad membranous flap; mouth at front, large, extends beyond eye, top jaw long, longer in male in which it reaches nearly to edge of operculum, with rounded tip in female and long, curved, pointed tip in male; both jaws with several rows of large papillae inside tooth rows; lateral line on front half of body only, high, ends under soft rays 4-6 of dorsal fin, 57-75 pores; 1-2 teeth at front of roof of mouth; top tooth patch in pharynx with exceptionally long teeth; 32-36 rakers on first gill arch; dorsal fin, XI-XII,15-17; anal III, 15-17; tail fin rounded; pelvic fin with elongate second ray reaching nearly to anus in both sexes; head and nape scaleless, rest of body scaly; 92-121 oblique scale rows.
Head and body red-brown; fine speckles on top of head, a dark spot at top margin of preopercle, another spot below, a spot behind the eye; a V shaped black mark (larger in male) inside rear of top jaw, preceded by a white band above which there is an red spot; 6 wide dark brown blotches or bars on upper half of body, 1st one behind gill opening, last one on tail base; median fins orangish; dorsal fin with a jet black spot between tips of first 1-2 spines (juveniles may lack this spot and have an ocellus between spines II-VII), and usually 5-6 dark blotches corresponding to flank bars, fin darker on outer part, with some dark and light spots; anal fin straw colored, with dark outer margin; tail fin transparent with two pale spots on base and a scattering of dark spots on midfin; pectorals transparent, pelvics with dark tips.
Size: 10.8 cm.
Habitat: burrows in sand and rubble.
Depth: 12-32 m.
Range: The Gulf of California.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California).
Depth Range Max: 32 m.
Depth Range Min: 12 m.
Diet: bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=31; Southern limit=24; Western limit=-113; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=7; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Brooded; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Bathypelagic.
Global Endemism: East Pacific endemic; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; All species.
Habitat: 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: 10.8 cm.
Regional Endemism: TEP endemic; Cortez province endemic; Continent; Continent only; Continental TEP endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Bussing, W.A and Lavenberg, R.J., 2003., Four new species of eastern tropical Pacific jawfishes (Opistognathus: Opistognathidae)., Rev. Biol. Trop., 51:529-550.
- 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.
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