Species: Amphichthys cryptocentrus, Bocon Toadfish

no pore after pectoral base
Amphichthys cryptocentrus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1837)
Bocon Toadfish
Head and front of body greatly depressed; head with many barbells, especially around lower jaw; a prominent branched tentacle over eye; teeth molar-like to pointed, but no canines; 2 solid spines on upper opercle and 1 below those; gill openings restricted to side, before pectoral fin base; dorsal fin with III solid spines, spiny and soft parts joined, soft part 29 rays; anal fin 23-25 rays; dorsal and anal fins not joined to tail fin; no glands between upper pectoral rays on inner surface of fin; a gland but no pore opening to surface at rear of base of pectoral fin; 2 lateral lines (32-40 pores in upper, 27-34 in lower); no light organs; no scales.
Head and body pale brown to yellowish, with diffuse mottled markings; belly whitish; head often with small orange spots, and lower part brown with white reticulations, a dark irregular bar from eye to lower operculum; a dark transverse bar across nape, followed by a second bar; dorsal fin with alternating yellow and brown bars; anal fin almost uniformly yellow.
Reaches 34 cm.
Rock and sand bottoms.
Depth range: 1-109 m.
Panama 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
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Submerged vegetation
- Corals
- Estuary
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Data
- No pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- 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)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 34
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 109