Species: Pareques perissa, Galapagos rock croaker, Odd highhat
juvenile: 8-9 undulating stripes, black fin edges
Pareques perissa (Heller & Snodgrass, 1903)
Galapagos rock croaker, Odd highhat
Body oblong, deep, back strongly arched; eye relatively large, 25-33% of head length;snout overhangs horizontal mouth; top jaw notched, encloses lower; chin with 5 pores, no barbels; 16-18 short gill rakers; preopercle almost smooth; dorsal fin with long base, deep notch between spiny and soft parts, spiny part high, rounded, XI +I, 32-33; anal fin with short base, II, 8, 2nd spine thick, slightly shorter than 1st ray; pectoral short; tail fin rounded; all scales rough; 50-53 lateral line scales; soft dorsal and anal fins covered with thick sheaths of scales.
Adult with head, body and fins charcoal. Juveniles silvery white, with 8-9 undulating black stripes on sides; borders of dorsal and tail fins dark.
Size: to about 30 cm.
Inhabits rocky reefs.
Depth: 3-35 m.
Galapagos Islands.
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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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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Galapagos Islands endemic
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- All species
- Island (s) only
- 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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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 35
