Species: Diplectrum euryplectrum, Big-head sand-perch, Wide-spur sand-perch
Diplectrum euryplectrum Jordan & Bollmann, 1890
Big-head sand-perch, Wide-spur sand-perch
Body elongate, moderately compressed; head large (~ 43% of SL); angle of preopercle a wide, squarish bony spur with 6-12 large spines, much higher than remaining part of upper border of preopercle; 21-27 gill rakers; dorsal X, 12-13; anal III, 8 rays; tail slightly forked; snout and between eyes scaleless; scales moderately small, rough; 46-52 lateral line scales, 8-13 vertical rows scales on cheek.
Grey brown; body with ~ 4 double dark bars, 2 horizontal rows of gold speckles; yellow lines on head - bar from eye to top jaw, stripe from top jaw to behind eye to divide into 2-3 branches to mid and lower & sometimes upper operculum; dark blotch on upper opercle; spiny dorsal membranes blue, spine tips orange; soft dorsal pale grey, with 2 yellow stripes, a black stripe along its base; tail & pelvics yellow, tail with dark blotch on base, orange bars & white tips; anal fin white, with yellow stripe.
Size: 20 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 15-150 m.
Southern Baja and the lower Gulf of California to northern Peru, the Revillagigedos and the Galapagos.
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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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- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 15
- Depth Range Max
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- 150
