Species: Anableps anableps, Largescale Four-eyes
between eyes > eye

Anableps anableps (Linnaeus, 1758)
Largescale Four-eyes
Body elongate, rounded at front, compressed at rear; head depressed at front, pointed in side view; eye horizontally divided, raised above of head, with 2 pupils; space between eyes > eye diameter; mouth protractile, at top front, upper jaw longer; teeth simple; nostrils tubular; gill membranes joined under throat (but not fused) to throat; fins without spines; dorsal fin short (7-10), far back on body, well behind anal fin; pectoral fin low on side; pelvic fins on the abdomen, distinctly behind tip of pectoral fin; fertilization internal, male sex organ is formed by first three anal fin rays; scales large, < 64 in lateral series (corner of the operculum to the base of the tail fin).
Pale grey; 7-8 dark grey lines along body and belly; fins dusky.
Size: reaches 30 cm.
Habitat: lives at the surface layer.
Habitat freshwater, and, sometimes, in saline mangrove areas at the mouths of rivers.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Trinidad and the Orinoco delta to the Amazon delta.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Mid Water
- Near Bottom
- Near Surface
- Surface
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Water column
- Estuary
- Freshwater
- Mangrove
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Insects
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Phytoplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- 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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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5