Species: Macrodon mordax, Dog-tooth weakfish, Toothed weakfish
Macrodon mordax (Gilbert & Starks, 1904)
Dog-tooth weakfish, Toothed weakfish
Body elongate, compressed; eye moderately large; mouth oblique, large, lower jaw projecting; chin without pores, no barbells; snout with 2 marginal pores; teeth large, pointed, with large canines at front, those on top jaw strongly curved, with arrow-head tips; gill rakers 9-11;preopercle edge smooth; top corner of gill opening notched; dorsal rays IX-X+I, 27-30; anal fin with I-II weak spines, 9-10, with short base; pectorals long, reaching beyond tips of depressed pelvic fins;edge of tail fin S shaped; scales small, smooth; soft dorsal and anal entirely scaled; the lateral line extends to the center of the end of the tail fin; pored lateral-line scales 45-55.
Silvery, bluish or greenish greyish on upper back; axil of pectoral fin dark; fins whitish to slightly dusky.
Size: grows to 50 cm.
Inhabits coastal waters, including bays and estuaries.
Depth: 5-30 m.
Panama and Colombia.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Near Bottom
- Mid Water
- Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Estuary
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bentho-Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- 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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- 50
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
