Species: Prionotus miles, Galapagos gurnard, Galapagos searobin, Orange-throat searobin, Orange-throat gurnard
steep front profile
Prionotus miles Jenyns, 1840
Galapagos searobin, Orange-throat searobin, Orange-throat gurnard, Galapagos gurnard
Head deep, with steep front profile, snout concave; wide between eyes; no projecting snout plates; no transverse groove across top of head behind eyes; center of radiation of bony ridges on cheek without a spine; teeth on jaws and roof of mouth simple; two separate dorsal fins, X + 10-12; pectoral fins relatively long, reaching to middle of anal fin, 13-14 rays, with 2-3 enlarged free rays at bottom; body with rough scales; rear flap of operculum with scales; nape scaled; lateral-line scales 75-80.
Generally grey brown above, abruptly white belly, with row of orange spots along junction of those colors; a broad triangular red-brown blotch under eye; under throat orange; outer 3/4 of first dorsal fin dark; pectoral fin blackish or grey with rows of dark spots, and with blue-white margin; tail fin with dark blotches forming bars, white margin.
Size: reaches 30 cm.
Inhabits sand-rubble bottoms in the vicinity of rocky reefs.
Depth: 20-30 m.
Galapagos Islands.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- 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 associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- TEP endemic
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- Galapagos Islands endemic
- Island (s)
- 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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- Listed
- Vulnerable
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
