Species: Diplectrum labarum, High-fin sand-perch
soft D 3-5 oblique orange stripes
Diplectrum labarum Rosenblatt & Johnson, 1974
High-fin sand-perch
Body elongate, moderately compressed; snout fairly blunt; lower jaw projecting slightly; angle of preopercle a bony spur squarish, with 8-13 large spines, deeper than rest of preopercle above; 22-24 gill rakers; dorsal X,11-13, 2nd-4th spines elongated, with filaments, 2nd spine at least 2X 1st; anal III, 6-8; tail slightly concave, upper tip longer; snout and between eyes scaleless; scales moderately small, rough; 47-49 lateral line scales, 9-12 vertical rows scales on cheek.
Grey brown above, silvery white below; inside operculum black, visible through side; upper sides with 5-6 squarish dark blotches or double bars; prominent large black blotch at base of tail fin; spiny dorsal with basal orange line, elongate spines black, soft part with 3-5 oblique orange stripes and thin orange margin; tail fin with 3 thin vertical orange bars, upper and lower rays red, 3 small black spots with intervening white spots along upper base.
Size: 26 cm.
Habitat: sandy and muddy bottoms.
Depth: 14-160 m.
Central Baja and the Gulf of California to northern Perú.
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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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- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- 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
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- TEP endemic
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- 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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- 26
- Depth Range Min
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- 14
- Depth Range Max
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- 160
