Species: Anableps microlepis, Finescale four-eyes

between eyes < / = eye

Anableps microlepis Muller & Troschel, 1844
Finescale 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 small, 76-83 in lateral series (corner of the operculum to the base of the tail fin).
Upper 3/4 of body and upper ½ of head red-brown, lower parts whitish; ~6 narrow dark brown stripes along body; fins pale.
Size: reaches 32 cm.
Habitat: lives at the surface layer.
Habitat freshwater, and, in 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 Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Near Surface
- Mid Water
- Near Bottom
- Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Surface
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Mangrove
- Freshwater
- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Insects
- Data
- Phytoplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- 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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- Continent
- All species
- GC non-endemic
- Also in Brazil
- Extends South of GC
- Continent only
- 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
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
- Length Max
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- 32