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Main identification features
- head large, wide
- dark + pale lichen-like blotches
- tail ~42 percent total length
- jaws short, wide
Body stout, cylindrical; head large and broad (~14% of total length); snout short; jaws short and wide; teeth short, stout, triangular, serrated on both sides, partly in two rows on jaws; thorax swollen; origin of dorsal fin about over large gill opening; tail short (~42 % of total length).
Color: dark brown with pale brown to yellowish lichen-like blotches dispersed over body and dorsal and anal fins, smaller blotches densely covering entire head; tip of tail yellowish.
Reaches: 47 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 30-400 m.
Eastern Gulf of California to El Salvador.
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: 400 m.
Depth Range Min: 30 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=28; Southern limit=14; Western limit=-111; Eastern limit=-90; Latitudinal range=14; Longitudinal range=21.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; 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: 47 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; Bottom only;
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- Böhlke, E. B., 2001., Gymnothorax eurygnathos, a new moray from the Gulf of California (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae)., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49(Supplement 1):1-5.
- 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.
- Guichenot, A., 1848., Fauna Chilena. Peces. Pp. 137-370. In: C. Gay, Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Vol. 2, Zoologia. Paris & Santiago., Fauna Chilena, Peces,.
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