Species: Aprognathodon platyventris, Stripe eel, Striped eel
no groove under snout
Aprognathodon platyventris Bohlke, 1967
Striped eel
Body moderately elongate; tail ~1/3 TL; head laterally compressed; skin of head and underside of snout smooth; snout overhanging, no central groove underneath; front nostril tubular, thick, prominent; rear nostril opens in mouth; top jaw 3-8 teeth, lower jaw 8-18; no teeth at center of top jaws; central roof of mouth with 1 row of 4-7 teeth; gill openings low, angled down and forwards, space between them on underside less that length of opening; no pectoral fins; dorsal and anal fins low, but distinct; dorsal fin begins on head and ends shortly before tail tip; no tail fin; lateral line complete, lines of each side of head connected by 2 canals with across top of head.
Pale, with 3 dark stripes: a broad one along midside from end of head to tail tip, a narrow one along outer edge of dorsal fin, a narrow one along each belly ridge, that degrades to a line of spots behind anus.
Reaches 46 cm.
Shallow sand and seagrass beds.
Depth: 0-17 m.
The Bahamas to Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Insular primarily
- Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 46
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 17
