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Main identification features
- back and fin rays tan
- sucker papilla: 0 front, 2 rows rear
- pectoral rays spotted
Body broad, slightly depressed; head moderately slender, depressed, snout shallow and flat; top lip broad, wider at front than sides; a small round fleshy swelling at pectoral base; rear nostril over front edge of eye, front nostril with conspicuous 2-lobed flap; top jaw with a patch of conical teeth, followed by a row of canines behind; 5-6 pairs of round-tipped incisors at front of lower jaw, with patch of small conical teeth behind, followed by row of slightly curved canines; small papillae on lower jaw and extremities of mouth; anus closer to anal origin than sucker; pectoral 16-18 rays, in male lower 4 rays swollen; sucker disc large (24-43% of standard length), without papillae at front and center, 2 rows of papillae across rear; dorsal 9-10 rays; anal 6-7 rays; tail 7-9 rays.
(Preserved fish) Top and sides of head and body, and fin rays light brown; small dark spots along pectoral rays.
Size: 2.3 cm.
Habitat: rocky bottoms.
Depth: 0-5 m?.
Central to southern Mexico.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 5 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=22; Southern limit=16; Western limit=-106; Eastern limit=-96; Latitudinal range=6; Longitudinal range=10.
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: 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: 2.3 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; 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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- Briggs, J.C., 1955., A monograph of the clingfishes (Order Xenopterygii)., Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., 6:1-224.
- 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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