Species: Echiophis intertinctus, Spotted spoon-nose eel
Echiophis intertinctus (Richardson, 1848)
Spotted spoon-nose eel
Body stout, cylindrical; tail 52-57% of TL; snout short, conical; eye moderate, far forward and near top of head profile; front nostril tubular, rear nostril a short tube before and under eye; mouth long, jaws nearly equal; teeth strong, pointed, in double series, largest at and near front, those on roof of mouth large, nearly continuous with those at front between top jaws; lips without barbels; gill opening vertical, on side, elongate; dorsal fin origin behind pectoral tips by < pectoral length; tail tip blunt; pectoral large, rounded; lateral line complete, lines of each side of head connected by 2 canals with across top of head; 2 inconspicuous pores low on preoperculum behind mouth.
Body cream, a faint yellow stripe along bases of dorsal and anal fins; body on and above lateral line with 3 irregular rows of large brown spots, most larger than eye; smaller spots on rear of head and front of body; dark spots mark jaw pores, but not the 2 preopercular pores behind the mouth; dorsal fin with pale base, diffuse spots and a broken dark margin; pectoral dark except at base; anal fin pale, with a prominent black margin
Reaches 124 cm.
Soft bottoms.
Depth range: 0-64 .
N Carolina to Brazil.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends N + S of GC
- All species..
- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Extends North of GC
- Continental primarily
- Extends South of GC
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Temperate (>35N)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 64
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Length Max
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- 124
