Species: Bellator brachychir, Shortfin Searobin
no nasal spines
short spine over pectoral base

Bellator brachychir (Regan, 1914)
Shortfin Searobin
Snout blunt; spiny projections at front of snout very short, blunt, with short triangular forward-projecting plates; mouth large, reaches past front edge of eye; eye large; no flaps or tentacles over eye; no spines around nostrils; spine behind top corner of operculum short; dorsal fin XI, no elongate spines, 11-12; anal 11-12 (usually 11) rays; pectoral fins short, 12 joined rays, reaching origin of anal fin, with 3 enlarged, free rays at bottom of fin, 1st free ray distinctly longer than fin itself; breast without scales; 62-70 lateral line scales; membrane above opercular spine without scales; nape not scaled.
Upper half brown, lower ½ white; dorsal fin brown, with a black spot between spines IV-V or V-VI; pectoral with rear edge light, rays 3-5 with elongate black blotch; tail fin with 2 dark reddish bars; pelvics and anal fins white.
Size: 19 cm.
Habitat: sand and mud bottoms.
Depth: 27-366 m, usually 137-275 m.
N Carolina to Uruguay.

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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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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Pelagic fish larvae
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- 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 N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- 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)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 19
- Depth Range Min
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- 27
- Depth Range Max
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- 366