Species: Pronotogrammus eos, Bigeye bass
pink; C & soft D - yellow spots
Pronotogrammus eos Gilbert, 1890
Bigeye bass
Body an elongate oval, narrowing to tail base; upper and lower head profiles convex; very large eye (diameter = 12-16% of SL); mouth moderately oblique, lower jaw projecting, top jaw bone without additional bone above; a patch of granular teeth on tongue; preoperculum finely serrated on rear and lower edges; 11-13 long rakers on upper limb of first gill arch; dorsal fin X (4th-9th ~ equal and longer than 3rd), 14-15; anal III, 8; pectoral 17-19, long, reaches past origin of anal fin; pelvic fins long, but without elongate rays; tail deeply forked, with sharp tips; 36-40 lateral scales; two rows of large scales between base of dorsal fin and lateral line; head and jaws fully scaled.
Head and body pink above, silver below; a curved yellow stripe from snout to under eye, yellow blotches on operculum; a series of vertically elongate yellowish blotches along mid-side of body; fins pinkish, with small yellowish spots on upper tail lobe and on soft dorsal, yellow edges to the remaining fins.
Size: to 21 cm.
Habitat: probably aggregates over rock, sand and shell bottoms.
Depth: 80- 325 m.
SW and eastern middle Gulf of California to Panama, and Cocos.
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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 + water column
- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathydemersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- No Data
- Pelagic fish larvae
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 21
- Depth Range Min
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- 80
- Depth Range Max
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- 325
