Species: Prionotus stearnsi, Shortwing Searobin

Prionotus stearnsi Jordan & Swain, 1885

Shortwing Searobin

Snout long, straight; no cirri over nostrils or eyes; mouth opens at front, lower jaw projects, with a small bony knob on center of chin; eye not large; spine on preoperculum short, at most reaching to edge of operculum; dorsal rays X, 12; anal rays 10; pectoral fins rounded, 13-14 joined rays, short, not reaching past origin of anal fin, with 3 enlarged, free rays at bottom of fin; body scaled; membrane above opercular spine with scales; nape with scales.

Upper body silvery-black, whitish below; fins dark, dorsal fins with yellow-brown outer edges; pectoral fin black, pelvic white; tail fin whitish, with rear edge of upper lobe yellow, that of lower lobe brown.

Size: reaches 18 cm.

Habitat: mud-sand bottoms.

Depth: 11-710 m, usually 37-110 m.

N Carolina to French Guiana.