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Paralabrax nebulifer (Girard, 1854)
BARRED SAND BASS
Barred sand-bass

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Paralabrax nebulifer
www.fao.org Copyright Michel Lamboeuf · 0
Paralabrax nebulifer

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Main identification features
  • grey to olive, faint dark bars
  • d: 3rd longest, 2.5 x 2nd
  • dark oblique bar: eye to operculum
Body relatively slender (~29% of standard length), compressed, back moderately elevated; head pointed, forehead profile gently curved; lower body profile relatively straight; lower jaw projects to join snout profile; mouth extends to under middle of pupil; preopercle finely serrated; scales between eyes and forward to rear nostrils; pelvics inserted under or slightly behind pectoral base; 16-18 rakers on lower arm of 1st gill arch; dorsal X,13-15, 3rd spine largest, distinctly longer than 4th & 2.5X length of 2nd spine, rear margin of soft fin pointed; anal III,7, spines short, 3rd largest, soft part with rounded end; pectoral rounded, 17-18; tail straight to slightly concave; scales small, rough, 96-113 lateral scales.

Dark grey to greenish brown head and body; upper 2/3 body and tail base with dark blotches and indistinct to dark bars; often golden-brown spots on cheek and operculum, especially in juveniles; a dark oblique bar between eye and lower corner of operculum; juvenile without bars on body.

Size: 65 cm.

Habitat: sand bottoms close to rocks.

Depth: 0-185 m.

California to the tip of Baja.


Attributes

Abundance: Common.

Cites: Not listed.

Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).

Depth Range Max: 185 m.

Depth Range Min: 0 m.

Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); octopus/squid/cuttlefish; bony fishes; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.

Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=34; Southern limit=24; Western limit=-119; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=10; Longitudinal range=9.

Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.

Feeding Group: Carnivore.

FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.

Global Endemism: TEP non-endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.

Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Sand & gravel; Rocks; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef and soft bottom.

Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.

IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.

Length Max: 65 cm.

Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; California province, primarily; All species.

Residency: Vagrant.

Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.

Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;

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References
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  • Breder, C.M. Jr., 1936., Scientific results of the second oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1926. Heterosomata to Pediculati from Panama to Lower California., Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collect. Yale Univ., 2(3):1-56.
  • De la Cruz , J. , Galvan , F. , Abitia , L. A. , Rodriguez , J. and Gutierrez, F. J., 1994., Lista sistematica de los peces marinos de Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Systematic List of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico)., Ciencias Marinas, 20:17-31.
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  • Girard, C., 1854., Observations upon a collection of Fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Liut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 7:142-156.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.


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