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Overview |
Main identification features
- nape: scales roughhead spongy
- 1st dorsal fin and pectorals black
- c: rounded
- roof mouth pale
- preopercle: 2 spines;chin: 6 pores
- pectoral reaches anal fin origin
Body oblong, compressed; top of head wide, cavernous, translucent, spongy to touch; wide between eyes; mouth large, below, ends just behind eye; chin without barbels, with 6 pores; angle of preoperculum with 2 strong spines; deep notch between spiny and soft parts of dorsal; 41-45 long, thin rakers on first gill arch; dorsal XII-XIII,22-26, 1st and 2 spines strong; anal II spines, 2nd thick, ~long as 1st ray, 8-9 rays; pectorals long, pointed, reach past anal origin, 18-20 rays; tail rounded to blunt point; scales rough on nape and body, smooth on breast and head, 45-56 on lateral line; tail and soft dorsal and anal covered with small scales.
Yellow brown, sides with grey lines along scale rows; spiny dorsal and all of pectorals except lowest 2 rays black; soft dorsal, tail and anal dark; scales on sides and back with faint dark streaks; roof of mouth pale; inside surface of gill chamber dotted.
Size: 15 cm.
Habitat: shallow coastal, including lagoons.
Depth: 1-30 m?.
Colombia and Ecuador.
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: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; zooplankton; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; pelagic fish larvae; pelagic fish eggs.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=5; Southern limit=-4; Western limit=-81; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=9; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore; Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Beach; Estuary; Mud; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Sand & gravel.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 15 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Panamic province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
- Eigenmann, C.H., 1917., Eighteen new species of fishes from northwestern South America., Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 56:673-689.
- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen III. Vertebrados - Parte 2., FAO3:1201-1813.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
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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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