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Main identification features
- d: i, 6-7
- flank: 6-10 dark bars
- gill rakers: 15-22
- male: sex organ + hooks, tip curved forward
Body elongate (depth ~29% of standard length), upper head profile straight; head small, rounded; eye 1/3 of head length; mouth small, relatively narrow, with small side clefts; outer series of teeth larger; 15-22 rakers on 1st gill arch; dorsal fin I, 6-7, origin over last rays of anal fin; pectoral about as long as head, generally not reaching to middle of pelvic fin; anal fin II+ 6-8, rounded; fins larger in male; male sex organ long ( ~2X head length), with ~16 hooks along the rear edge of the shaft, tip of shaft curved forward; scales smooth, 27-30 in lateral series, 7 rows above lateral line.
Both sexes olive above, grey below; 6-10 well defined dark bars on flanks of front 3/4 of body; dark line along midline from anal fin to tail fin; fins plain dusky, or pelvics tinged with yellow; males with yellow belly.
Size: reaches 9 cm (males are much smaller than females).
Habitat: lives in fresh, brackish and saltwater, in coastal lagoons and rivers.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Ranges from Mexico (Jalisco) to Colombia.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 5 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: zooplankton; Insects; detritus.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=22; Southern limit=4; Western limit=-106; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=18; Longitudinal range=28.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore; Planktivore; Detritivore.
FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Estuary; Mangrove; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Freshwater.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 9 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Mexican + Panamic provinces endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Freshwater; Non Marine.
Water Column Position: Mid Water; Surface; Bottom;
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- Bussing, W.A., 1987., Peces de las aguas continentales de Costa Rica., Universidad de Costa Rica:271pp.
- Dorda, J. and Perdices, A., 1997., Ictiofauna continental de la Isla de Coiba (Panamá). En Castroviejo, S. y Velayos M. (Eds): Flora y fauna del Parque Nacional de Coiba (Panamá). Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional., Serviprint:155-175.
- Hildebrand, S.F., 1925., Fishes of the Republic of El Salvador, Central America., Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries., 41:236-287.
- Meek, S. E., 1912., New species of fishes from Costa Rica., Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. Publ., 10:69-75.
- Phillips, P. C., 1981., Annotated Checklist of Fishes at Jiquilisco Bay, El Salvador., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 29:45-58.
- Ricker, K.E., 1959., Mexican shore and pelagic fishes collected from Acapulco to Cape San Lucas during the 1957 cruise of the "Marijean"., Univ. Brit. Columbia Inst. Fish., Mus. Contrib., 3:18pp.
- Rosen , D. E. and Bailey, R. M., 1963., The Poeciliid Fishes (Cyprinodontiformes), Their Structure, Zoogeography, and Systematics., Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 126:1-176.
- Vega, A.J., Villareal, N., 2003., Peces asociados a arrecifes y manglares en el Parque Nacional Coiba., Tecnociencia, 5:65-76.
- Wischnath, L., 1993., Atlas of livebearers of the world., T.F.H. Publications:336pp.
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