Species: Sanopus barbatus, Bearded toadfish
Sanopus barbatus (Meek & Hildebrand, 1928)
Bearded toadfish
Relatively long bodied; head depressed, with many branched barbells and skin flaps, especially along lower jaw; all of barbells on chin are short, thick and with many short, thick branches; no cirri between eyes; front nostrils are tubular; gill openings restricted to side, before pectoral fin base; operculum with 2 solid spines at top corner and one at bottom corner; a large pore leading to a group of glands just behind base of pectoral fin, no glands on pectoral fin itself; dorsal fin III, 31-34; anal fin 25-28; 2 lateral lines, 32-38 papillae on upper lateral line, 27-34 on lower line; no light organs; body scaleless.
Upper body brown with mottling; belly white with brown mottling; tail fin with 1-3 large ocelli
Reaches 41 cm.
Lives in caves under corals.
Depth range: 2-20 m.
Belize to Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- 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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- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Caribbean endemic
- Continent
- GC endemic
- Continent only
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- 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
- Length Max
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- 41
- Depth Range Min
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- 2
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
