Species: Chaunax pictus, Pink gaper, Pink frogmouth

lure: front black, rear white/translucent

Chaunax pictus Lowe, 1846
Pink frogmouth, Pink gaper
Body rounded, slightly compressed, tapering to a small, rounded tail; head large, globular, cuboid; eyes high on side of head, covered with a clear skin window; mouth large, strongly oblique to ~vertical; teeth small, slender, sharp; gill opening small; dorsal fin in 2 parts: 1st is a single spine modified as an angling lure in a scaleless, oval depression on snout, lure is a short stalk with a dense cluster of short threads like a short mop,2nd & 3rd spines not externally visible, snout cavity strongly concave; soft dorsal on rear of body, 10-12; anal fin 0, 7 (6-7); pectorals behind mid-body, 13-14 (12-15); skin very loose, flaccid, covered with minute spine-like denticles, those fine and densely packed; single open lateral line from base of tail fin to head, there with prominent canals, & connections to branches under eye, to chin along lower side of body to over pectorals, main part on upper body with 29-42 pores, continues with 11 (10-13) on head.
Head & body rosy red to orange red, back may have yellow spots, belly and fins darker red; snout cavity for lure dark brown or black; lure with pale orange stalk & thread cluster blue-black at front, white behind.
Reaches 40 cm
On soft and hard bottoms
Depth range 200-1183 m
Atlantic and Indo-west Pacific; New York to the Amazon

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Offshore Only
- Offshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Mud
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Transatlantic (East+West Atlantic)
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Extends South of GC
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Insular primarily
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 40
- Depth Range Min
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- 200
- Depth Range Max
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- 1183