Species: Tomicodon prodomus, Ecuadorian clingfish
lines down & back from eye
C base dark, other fins clear
Tomicodon prodomus Briggs, 1969
Ecuadorian clingfish
Body relatively slender, elongate, head relatively slender (both viewed from above); front nostril without skin flap; rear nostril before eye; 5-8 pairs of upper & 4-6 pairs of lower 3-pointed incisors, followed on each jaw by 1-3 small canines; 6 short, blunt rakers on 2nd & 3rd gill arches; anus markedly closer to anal fin origin than sucker; pectoral 19-21 rays; only a small fleshy swelling at pectoral base; sucker disc with broad patch of papillae at front, no papillae in center, 4-5 rows of papillae across rear section; dorsal 10 rays; anal 7-9 rays; tail 10-12 rays.
(Preserved fish) Upper body pale; 7 irregular brown bars across back, which continue on sides as bars, or wiggly lines or blotches; lines radiate from eye obliquely down and back across opercle; a large dark spot on side above pectoral fin base; fins clear except tail base dark.
Size: 3.8 cm.
Habitat: rocky intertidal and subtidal.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Ecuador and Colombia.
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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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent
- TEP 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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- 3.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
