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Main identification features
- front nostril - small flap
- back- pale band with 2 ventral extensions
- dark lines down from eye - 2 forward, 2 rearward
- no blotch over pectoral
Body relatively slender, elongate, head relatively slender; 8-10 rakers on 2nd & 3rd gill arch; small fleshy swelling at pectoral base; front nostril with small (slightly >nostril diameter) skin flap; 4 pairs of upper & 3 pairs of lower 3-pointed incisors, followed by 1-2 & 1 large canines, respectively, on each side; pectoral 20-21 rays; sucker with broad patch of papillae at front, no papillae in center, 5-7 rows of papillae across rear, papillae on inner row of front section at least twice as long as others; anus closer to anal fin origin than sucker; dorsal 6-8 rays; anal 5-8 rays; tail 7-8 rays.
Upper head & body pale grey with scattered white speckles; several wiggly transverse dark lines across top of head behind eyes; sides of head pale grey; 4 thin bars from eye - 2 below and 2 behind; an irregular white band along back at eye level, with 2 wide extensions down onto flank behind of pectoral; midflank with an irregular dark stripe plus blotches; dorsal with a dark margin; inner 2/3 of tail fin dark; no dark spot on flank above pectoral fin.
Size: 2.6 cm.
Habitat: intertidal rock pools and subtidal boulders.
Depth: 0-7 m.
Central Gulf of California to Colombia.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 7 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=28; Southern limit=3; Western limit=-112; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=25; Longitudinal range=34.
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: 2.6 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Briggs, J.C., 1955., A monograph of the clingfishes (Order Xenopterygii)., Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., 6:1-224.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rubio, E.A., 1986., Notas sobre la ictiofauna de la Isla de Gorgona, Colombia., Boletin Ecotropica. Univ. Bog. Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 13:86-112.
- Thomson , D.A. , Findley , L.T. and Kerstitch, A.N., 2000., Reef fishes of the Sea of Cortez., University of Texas Press(Revised Ed.):353.
- Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224.
- Villareal-Cavazos, A., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Bermúdez-Almada, B. and Arizpe-Covarrubias, O., 2000., Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: Lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía., Rev. Biol. Trop., 48:413-424.
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