Species: Diplectrum eumelum, Cheekspot sand-perch, Orange-spotted sand-perch, Pointed sand-perch
Diplectrum eumelum Rosenblatt & Johnson, 1974
Orange-spotted sand-perch, Cheekspot sand-perch, Pointed sand-perch
Body elongate, moderately compressed; snout blunt, convex tip; 18-22 gill rakers; angle of preopercle a broad, bluntly pointed bony spur with 8-14 long spines, spur wider than remainder of preopercular margin above; dorsal X,12-13; anal III,7-8; last and first rays of each of dorsal and anal ~ equal length; pelvics under or a little before pectorals; tail concave; snout and between eyes scaleless; scales moderately small, rough; 45-52 lateral line scales, 7-10 vertical rows of scales on cheek.
Upper head and body greybrown, with gold speckling; body sometimes with 5-8 indistinct narrow dark bars; belly white, yellow or light tan; 3-5 orange spots along cheek under eye join orange bar that angles from eye down across preopercular spur; orange spots behind eye and on operculum; inside opercle with large black blotch and yellow area behind it; spiny dorsal dusky, soft part blue with 2 orange stripes changing to spots at rear; tail with vertical rows of small orange spots; large black blotch on tail fin base; anal white, with central yellow stripe; pectoral & pelvic yellow.
Size: 31 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 15-100 m.
Southern Baja and the lower 3/4 of the Gulf of California to northern Peru, the Galapagos.
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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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- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- 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
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- All species
- Continent + Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 31
- Depth Range Min
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- 15
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
