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Main identification features
- forehead rounded
- d: 12
- c: forked
- preopercle: margin concave, smooth
- pectoral: long, curved, axil dark
- anal fin has 9-11 rays; spines short, 2nd less than 3rd
Elongate (body depth 33% of standard length), strongly compressed; smoothly curved head profile; mouth short, ends before eye; chin with 2 front pores and 2 rear pores in central hole; body scales without small accessory scales; dorsal XII,12, 3rd spine highest; preopercle margin smooth, slightly concave at rear; pectoral long, curved and pointed; anal long base, rays III, 9-11, 2nd spine shorter than 3rd; tail deeply forked; lateral line with 65 scales; 8 scale rows between lateral line and dorsal origin; soft dorsal and anal with small scales between rays.
Silvery grey; orange spots in scale centers give dark lines along scale rows, oblique above lateral line, horizontal below; fins dusky; opercular margin and inner base of pectoral fin black.
Size: 38 cm.
Habitat: demersal on soft bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m?.
Endemic to the Galapagos.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=2; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-90; Latitudinal range=4; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: 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: 38 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Galapagos Islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;
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- Fowler, H.W., 1944., Results of the Fifth George Vanderbilt Expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean sea, Panama, Galapagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific Islands). The Fishes., Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel., Monographs, 6:57-529.
- Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1898., The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part II., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:1241-2183.
- Jordan , D.S. and Fesler, B., 1889., Description of a new species of Orthopristis from the Galapagos Islands., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 41:36-37.
- Snodgrass , R. E. and Heller, E., 1905., Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898-1899. XVII. Shorefishes of the Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos and Galapagos Island., Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 6:333-427.
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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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