Species: Sanopus johnsoni, Cozumel toadfish
Sanopus johnsoni Collette & Starck in Collette, 1974
Cozumel toadfish
Relatively long bodied; head depressed, with many branched barbells and skin flaps, especially along lower jaw; barbells on chin long, thin, branched, branches long, thin, few; long 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, 32; 25 anal fin rays; 2 lateral lines, 37 papillae on upper lateral line, 32 on lower line; no light organs; no scales.
Head, body and fins uniform dark brown; belly pale brown with dark reticulations.
Reaches 30 cm.
Lives in caves under corals.
Depth range: 2-7 m.
Known only from offshore islands on the Caribbean coast of Mexico & Belize.
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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
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- No pelagic phase
- Data
- Benthic
- No pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- GC endemic
- Caribbean endemic
- All species..
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 2
- Depth Range Max
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- 7
