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Main identification features
- initial phase : pale brown + white belly and throat
- terminal phase : blue lines - head and scales, tail fin base - black spot
Head profile very steep, curved, with fleshy keel at front; head large (head depth ~83% head length, head length 25% of total length); eye on upper 1/2 of head; body depth 23% of total length; jaws without rear canine teeth; head scaleless except for few scales below eye; dorsal fin IX,11, origin over middle of operculum, height of fin gradually increasing to middle of soft part; anal III,10, origin under last dorsal spine, ~uniform height; pectoral reaches to line through anus; pelvic strongly pointed, with first ray elongate; tail slightly convex; lateral line in 2 sections with 19 + 5 pored scales; male with steeper head profile and deeper body than female.
Female uniform pale brown. Male darker brown, with a narrow blue and violet vertical line on each scale, most distinct and broadest on tail base; a conspicuous black spot (larger than eye) at base of tail just above lateral line; three concentric blue lines on outer part of operculum, three narrow blue lines running down and forward from eye across cheek; lower jaw and lower side of head with blue stripes and lines, the one connecting angles of mouth broader than the others, fins pale.
Size: 15.9 cm.
Habitat: benthic on fine sand.
Depth: 5-27 m.
Central Gulf of California to central Mexico.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 27 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: zooplankton; mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; pelagic fish eggs.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=26; Southern limit=17; Western limit=-112; Eastern limit=-99; Latitudinal range=9; Longitudinal range=13.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore; Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: 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: 15.9 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;
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- 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.
- Gill, T.N., 1862., Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California in the Smithsonian Institution, collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Part 1., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 14:140-151.
- Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1883., Catalogue of the fishes collected by Mr. John Xantus at Cape San Lucas, which are now in the United States National Museum, with descriptions of eight new species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 5(1882):353-371.
- 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.
- 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.
- Victor , B. C. and Wellington, G. M., 2001., A review of the razorfishes (Perciformes: Labridae) of the eastern Pacific Ocean., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49(Supplement 1):101-109.
- Victor, B. C. and Wellington, G. M., 2000., Endemism and the pelagic larval duration of reef fishes in the eastern Pacific Ocean., Marine Ecology Progress Series, 205:241-248.
- 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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