Species: Pontinus strigatus, Stalk-eye scorpionfish
eye small
D: 3rd spine long
red + yellow blotches & dark spots
fins red, D membranes yellow
fins red, D membranes yellow
Pontinus strigatus Heller & Snodgrass, 1903
Stalk-eye scorpionfish
Head large, very bony, with numerous low depressed spines; without pit behind eyes; eye large (~ 31% of head length); snout short, < eye diameter; stalked branched tentacle over eye, large in male; dorsal fin XII, 10, 3rd spine much longer than others, & last much longer than 11th, last ray attached along its entire length to body by membrane; anal III, 5-6; pectoral fin 17-19 rays, all unbranched; head & body covered with rough scales; lateral line with tubes on scales.
Bright red; belly pink; body, head and fins spotted and blotched with olive brown, those on head smaller.
Size: 8 cm.
Habitat: sandy and rocky bottoms.
Depth: 50-120 m?
Galapagos and Cocos.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathydemersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Multiple oceanic islands endemic
- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- Island (s) only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 8
- Depth Range Min
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- 50
- Depth Range Max
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- 120
