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Main identification features
- body ovallarge eye
- no stripes
- c: s or blunt point
- inside operculum black
- pectoral: long
- a: 2nd spine less than 1st ray
Body moderately elongate, oval, both profiles convex; back high; head low, broad, conical, snout pointed; eye large; mouth ~horizontal, under projecting snout; 1 short, thick barbel on chin; teeth in bands on each jaw, outer row on top jaw larger; preopercle finely serrated; 17-22 rakers on 1st gill arch; dorsal XI spines, 21-23 rays; anal II spines, 6-7 rays, 2nd spine slender, almost as long as 1st ray; pectorals long, pointed, longer than pelvics, 17-19 rays; tail S shaped or with angular point; 45-49 lateral line scales.
Silver grey, body without stripes; fins dusky; inside mouth and gill chamber black.
Size: 39 cm.
Habitat: sandy bottoms.
Depth: 30-185 m.
The tip of Baja to Ecuador.
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: 185 m.
Depth Range Min: 30 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic worms.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=24; Southern limit=1; Western limit=-110; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=23; Longitudinal range=32.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Bentho-Pelagic.
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: 39 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; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;
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- Béarez, P., 2001., Description of a new weakfish, Cynoscion nortoni, from Ecuador with a note on the distribution of Umbrina bussingi (Perciformes: Sciaenidae)., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49(Supplement 1):59-66.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lopez, M. I., 1980., Umbrina bussingi, a new sciaenid fish from the tropical eastern Pacific., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 28:203-208.
- 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.
- Walker , H. J. and Radford, K. W., 1992., Eastern Pacific species of the genus Umbrina (Pisces: Sciaenidae) with a description of a new species., Fishery Bulletin, 90:574-587.
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