Species: Prionotus teaguei, Long-ray searobin
Prionotus teaguei Briggs, 1956
Long-ray searobin
Head moderate, snout long and a little flattened; snout plates very short, bluntly serrated at front; no transverse groove across top of head behind eyes; eyes prominent but not elevated; between eyes relatively narrow (~ 2 eye diameter), concave; rear of preopercular crest serrated, without supplementary spine; teeth on jaws and roof of mouth simple; two separate dorsal fins, X + 12, 1st spine with front edge serrated, base of 1st ray serrated; pectoral fin 13, fin very long, reaches past anal base, upper free ray long (almost as long as fin, ½ SL); tail fin edge straight; body scales rough; nape and rear flap of operculum with scales; lateral-line scales 50-55.
Upper head and body grey brown, lower body white; 1st dorsal with irregular dusky stripes along middle and outer margin; second dorsal with dark outer and rear margins; tail fin with 3 dark bars; anal clear, rear margin dusky; pectoral fin uniformly dark grey, with 2 darker bars near base of fin, free rays dark or barred, in juvenile center of fin orange, with elongate oval black spots along fin rays.
Size: 15 cm.
Habitat: sand-mud bottoms.
Depth: 20-60 m?
Costa Rica and Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Zooplankton
- Pelagic crustacea
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Panamic province endemic
- Continent
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- All species
- 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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- Vulnerable
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 15
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 60
