Species: Oxycirrhites typus, Longnose hawkfish
Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker, 1857
Longnose hawkfish
Body slender, moderately compressed; snout very long (~ ½ head length); upper head profile slightly concave; a fringe of cirri on rear edge of front nostril; mouth moderately large; a row of small canines on jaws with a band of simple teeth inside those; teeth on center but not sides of roof of mouth; operculum with 2 flat spines; preopercle strongly serrated; dorsal fin X, 13, continuous, slightly notched between spines and rays, membranes between spines deeply indented, each spine with 2-4 cirri at the tip; anal fin III, 7; tail fin bluntly straight edged; lower 5-6 rays of the pectoral stout, with membranes deeply notched, distinctly longer than other rays, used for perching on the bottom; pelvic I, 5, its origin behind pectoral base; scales smooth, 51-53 on lateral line; no scales between eyes; 3 rows of large scales on cheek.
Whitish with horizontal and vertical red bands forming a cross-hatch pattern.
Size: to 13 cm.
Habitat: generally seen perched on gorgonians or black coral at depths below 20 m, although associates with small gorgonians in as little as 5 m of water at some eastern Pacific sites.
Depth: 5-100 m.
Widely distributed in the Indo- Pacific; the tip of Baja and the central Gulf of California to Colombia, as well as the Revillagigedos, Galapagos, Cocos and Malpelo.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Pelagic crustacea
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- All species
- TEP non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- All species
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 13
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
