Species: Dactylagnus peratikos, Simple stargazer, the sand-stargazer

eyes not stalked

both lips: skin flaps
Dactylagnus peratikos Bohlke & Caldwell, 1961
Simple sand-stargazer
Body compressed, tapering to tail; head large, deep, bluntly rounded at front; eyes on top of head, not stalked, without spots or flaps; tubular nostrils; mouth upturned, with a protruding lower jaw, lower jaw rounded when viewed from above; both lips with skin flaps; upper part of operculum with a frill of skin flaps; dorsal and anal fins with long bases; dorsal fin continuous, origin about over anal origin, soft rays 28-30; anal fin segmented rays 33-35; pelvic fins inserted under throat, each with I, 3, rays thickened and free at the tips; lateral line continuous, bends down under 6th-8th dorsal spine, 15-17 scales on arched front part, 32-34 on rear straight part; 1 row of scales above front of lateral line, 2 rows above end of arched part; scales large, smooth, 2-3 rows between apex of lateral line arch and dorsal fin; head and belly scaleless.
Light tan, upper body irregularly spotted and mottled with brown.
Reaches 7.2 cm.
Lives in shallow shoreline waters.
Depth range: 0-5 m.
Costa Rica and Panama.

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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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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Beach
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- GC endemic
- Caribbean endemic
- All species..
- Continent
- 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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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 7.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5