Species: Sanopus splendidus, Splendid toadfish
Sanopus splendidus Collette, Starck & Phillips in Collette, 1974
Splendid toadfish
Relatively long bodied; head depressed, with many branched barbells and skin flaps, especially along lower jaw; only 1-2 central barbells on chin are branched; 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, 29-31; 25 anal fin rays; 2 lateral lines, 30-34 papillae on upper lateral line, 28-30 on lower line; no light organs; no scales.
Head black, with dense white zebra-like lines; body dark grey, with faint chain-link pattern; fins dark grey, with broad yellow-orange and black borders, pelvics yellow.
Reaches 29 cm.
Lives in caves under corals.
Depth range: 10-25 m.
Cozumel Island, Mexico, and Glover's Reef, 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 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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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- No pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- All species..
- Continent
- Caribbean endemic
- GC endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Endangered
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 29
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 25
