Species: Cynoponticus savanna, Guayana Pike-conger
mouth long

roof mouth - central row large triangular canines
Cynoponticus savanna (Bancroft, 1831)
Guayana Pike-conger
Body moderately elongate, rounded at front, compressed at rear; tail ~60% of TL; head conical; snout short, blunt, projecting; eye well developed; front nostril tubular, directed forwards; rear nostril elliptical, in front of middle of eye; mouth large, ends just behind eye; lips without fleshy flanges; strong, heavy conical teeth in multiple rows on jaws; 3 rows of teeth on front of roof of mouth, center row of large compressed triangular canines; tip of lower jaw and its large teeth fit into notch under snout when mouth is closed; gill opening a vertical crescent, low on side, nearly meet on underside; well developed dorsal and anal fins confluent with tail fin, the dorsal origin just before the pectoral base; pectoral fin large; lateral line conspicuous, complete, opening through branches leading to several pores instead of simple pores, pores on head not apparent.
Dark blackish grey above, lighter below; pectoral fin black; dorsal and anal fins with narrow black edge.
Reaches 200 cm.
Lives on soft bottoms, in bays and estuaries.
Depth: 2-746 m.
Cuba to Brazil.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Estuary
- Mud
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent only
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 200
- Depth Range Min
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- 2
- Depth Range Max
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- 746