Species: Orthopristis lethopristis, Scalyfin grunt
D2 & A: scales on membranes
Orthopristis lethopristis Jordan & Fesler, 1889
Scalyfin grunt
Body slender (depth 3.0 in SL), strongly compressed; smoothly curved head profile; mouth short, ends before eye, with thin lips; chin with 2 front pores and 2 rear pores in central hole, plus a longitudinal groove; preopercle smooth, with slightly concave vertical margin; lower gill rakers 13-14; dorsal fin XII 12, 3rd spine hightest, without notch between spines and rays; anal fin with long base, III, 9-11, 2nd spine < 3rd; pectoral long, curved, pointed; tail deeply forked; body scales without small accessory scales; 8 scale rows between lateral line and dorsal origin; soft dorsal and anal with small scales on membranes; lateral line 65 scales.
Silvery grey; orange spots in scale centers form lines along scale rows, oblique above lateral line, horizontal below; fins dusky; soft dorsal and anal sometimes speckled in large adults; opercular margin and inner base of pectoral fin black.
Size: 38 cm.
Habitat: demersal on soft bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m?
Endemic to the Galapagos.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom + water column
- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- 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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- Island (s) only
- All species
- Island (s)
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- TEP endemic
- Galapagos Islands endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 38
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
