© Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Taractichthys steindachneri Click on map for details about points. IDnature guides Checklist Australia Vertebrata Fish SFTEP Links We parsed the following live from the Web into this page. Such content is managed by its original site and not cached on Discover Life. Please send feedback and corrections directly to the source. See original regarding copyrights and terms of use. Australian Faunal Directory FishBase 80x5 - 240x3 - 240x4 - 320x1 - 320x2 - 320x3 - 640x1 - 640x2 Set display option above. Click on image to enlarge. © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Taractichthys steindachneri 2 thumbnails  •  slide show español Overview Main identification features use genus Head and body moderately compressed; head profile curved; head arched and rounded between eyes; eyes large, more than 1/2 eye diameter below the nearest part of the upper head profile; mouth at front, strongly oblique; tail deeply concave; tail base without a keel; pectoral low on body, long, reaches well past front lobe of anal fin; pelvics small, inserted just before pectoral base; scales large (34-38) and spiny, about 5 rows along the flank are ridged; dorsal & anal fins scaly and with long sickle-shaped front lobes in adults; dorsal fin 33-37, anal fin 26-28; adults without lateral line; small curved canine teeth in bands on both jaws. Color: Black, rear margin of tail fin, outer edges of soft dorsal and anal, and tips of pelvics white. Reaches 91.4 cm Lives in the water column near the bottom at the edge of the continental shelf. Depth range 50-360m An Indo-Pacific species collected in the SW Gulf of California and also known from California to central Baja. Attributes Cites: Not listed. Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap). Depth Range Max: 360 m. Depth Range Min: 50 m. Diet: octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes. Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=35; Southern limit=25; Western limit=-121; Eastern limit=-111; Latitudinal range=10; Longitudinal range=10. Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva. Feeding Group: Carnivore. FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic. Global Endemism: Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; All species. Habitat: Sand & gravel; Water column; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove). Inshore Offshore: Inshore; In & Offshore; Offshore. IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed. Length Max: 91.4 cm. Regional Endemism: Eastern Pacific non-endemic; Continent; Continent only; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; All species. Residency: Vagrant. Salinity: Marine; Marine Only. Water Column Position: Near Bottom; Bottom; Bottom + water column; Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Links to other sites Fishbase Catalog of Fishes Integrated Taxonomic Information System References 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. Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398. Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2. Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp. Steindachner, F., Döderlein, L., 1883., Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische Japan's. (I.)., Descr. Animalium, 47:211-242, Pls. 1-7. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. 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