Species: Gymnachirus nudus, Flabby sole, Nude sole
Gymnachirus nudus Kaup, 1858
Nude sole, Flabby sole
Body oval; eyes small, on right side; snout rounded; mouth small, arched, a little below snout; lips fleshy; rear edge of preopercle covered with skin; gill openings wide, united before pelvic fins; dorsal origin ~before level of eye; pelvic on eye side fused to anal; pectorals present or absent; lateral line from head to tail, straight, with 7-10 (usually > 7) accessory sensory lines at right angles to main line on right side; 3rd accessory LL 34-44 (26-59) pores; no scales, body covered with loose skin, eye side with or without short cirri in adults.
Eye side of adults with 13-21 (usually 15-18) dark narrow (3/4 width of pale interspaces) complete crossbars plus partial cross bars (often dotted) across body and dorsal and anal fins; ends of cross bars joined on dorsal and anal fins by a partial to complete dark line; tail with 3-4 complete crossbars; juveniles very dark body and fins on both sides.
Reaches 20 cm.
Lives on soft bottoms.
Depth range: 2-100 m.
Campeche (N Yucatan) to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Bony fishes
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Extends South of GC
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continental primarily
- Also in Brazil
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 2
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
