Species: Diplectrum conceptione, Yellow-mouth sand-perch
Diplectrum conceptione (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1828)
Yellow-mouth sand-perch
Body elongate, moderately compressed; snout fairly blunt, lower jaw projecting slightly; angle of preopercle a bony spur with 2 large central spines that point apart, 1-2 smaller enlarged spines above and below these; 22-24 gill rakers; dorsal X, 12-13, 4th spine longest, a little longer than longest ray; anal small, III, 7, 3rd spine longest; tail deeply concave, upper tip longer; lateral line complete; snout and between eyes scaleless; scales moderately small, rough; ~ 53 lateral line scales, 7-8 vertical rows scales on cheek.
Head and back dark reddish brown; operculum with inside black a large black blotch on outside; inside mouth yellow; side of body with 7-8 rose bars extending down to level of pectoral; large yellow blotch on side of belly above and before anus; belly yellow along midline; dorsal translucent, thinly mottled with olive and orange, margin red; anal fin yellow; tail olivaceus, dark margin, large dark blotch on base; pelvics dark olive.
Size: 20 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 10-80 m.
Ecuador to Concepcion, Chile.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- TEP non-endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Peruvian province, primarily
- Continent only
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- All species
- Continent
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- 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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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 80
