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Platygillellus altivelis Dawson, 1974
SAILFIN STARGAZER
Sailfin sand-stargazer

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Platygillellus altivelis
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Platygillellus altivelis

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Platygillellus altivelis
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Platygillellus altivelis
Platygillellus altivelis
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Platygillellus altivelis

Platygillellus altivelis
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Platygillellus altivelis
Platygillellus altivelis
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Platygillellus altivelis
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Overview
Main identification features
  • eye with papillae
  • 1st dorsal fin iii, high
  • body: 2 y bars
Dorsal rays III + XII-XIV, 15-17 (total elements 30-33); segmented anal rays 24-26 (usually 24 or 25); pectoral rays 13-15 (usually 14); total lateral-line scales 39-42; scales in straight (posterior) part of lateral line 11-14 (usually 12 or 13); lateral line deflected ventrally below 3rd-5th segmented dorsal rays; first 3 dorsal spines forming isolated or semi-isolated finlet; dorsal finlet relatively tall (its height about 87-107% of distance from its origin to snout tip); eye with papillae.

Overall whitish with large pair of Y-shaped blackish bars on middle of side; narrower blackish bars also present just behind head and across base of tail fin.

Size: reaches 4.4 cm.

Habitat: sandy bottoms.

Depth: 3-40 m.

Costa Rica and Panama.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 40 m.
Depth Range Min: 3 m.
Diet: bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=11; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-86; Eastern limit=-79; Latitudinal range=3; Longitudinal range=7.
Egg Type: Benthic; 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: 4.4 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; 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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References
  • Dawson, C.E., 1974., Studies on eastern Pacific sand stargazers (Pisces: Dactyloscopidae). 1. Platygillelus new genus with descriptions of new species., Copeia, 1974(1):39-55.
  • 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 III., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:2183-3136.
  • 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.

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