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Tomicodon absitus Briggs, 1955
DISTANT CLINGFISH
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Tomicodon absitus
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Tomicodon absitus

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Overview
Main identification features
  • front nostril: small flap
  • back: 4 groups dark dots
  • fins clear; tail fin base - pale bar
  • blotch above pectora;
Body relatively slender, elongate, head relatively slender (both viewed from above); 8-10 rakers on 2nd & 3rd gill arch; a small fleshy swelling at pectoral base; front nostril with short (height ~same as diameter of nostril) skin flap; rear nostril above or slightly behind front edge of eye; 4 pairs of upper & 3 pairs of lower 3-pointed incisors, followed, on each jaw, by 1 large canine; anus ~1/2 way between sucker and anal fin origin; pectoral 20 rays; sucker disc with broad patch of papillae at front, no papillae in center, 5-6 rows of papillae across rear section; dorsal 7 rays; anal 6-7 rays; tail 8 rays.

(Preserved fish) Upper body very pale; top of body & head covered with tiny brown spots, concentrated in 4 areas along back; prominent dark spot on flank above pectoral fin; fins clear, a pale bar across tail base.

Size: 2.3 cm.

Habitat: rocky intertidal and subtidal.

Depth: 0-10 m.

Revillagigedos islands.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); benthic microalgae.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=20; Southern limit=19; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-111; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=4.
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); 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: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Revillagigedos Islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Briggs, J.C., 1955., A monograph of the clingfishes (Order Xenopterygii)., Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., 6:1-224.
  • Castro-Aguirre, J.L. and Balart, E.F., 2002., La ictiofauna de las islas Revillagigedos y sus relaciones zoogeograficas, con comentarios acerca de su origen y evolucion. En: Lozano-Vilano, M. L. (Ed.). Libro Jubilar en Honor al Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León:153-170.
  • Ricker, K.E., 1959., Fishes collected from the Revillagigedo Islands during the 1954-1958 cruises of the "Marijean."., Univ. Brit. Columbia Inst. Fish., Mus. Contrib., 4:10pp.
  • Walker, B. W. and Baldwin, W. J., 1964., Provisional check list of fishes of the Revillagigedo islands., 18 pp.

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