Species: Chriolepis species B, Orange-headed goby
Chriolepis species B
Orange-headed goby
Body robust; head broad, rounded; eyes raised on top of head, close together; head without pores; papillae on most parts of head and nape; front nostril larger than rear nostril, both are long tubes; mouth slightly oblique, lower jaw slightly projecting, reaches past eye; tongue broad, front straight; gill rakers short, 7-11; dorsal fin VII (none elongated) + I, 10 (10-11); I, 10 anal fin rays, pectoral fins 17-19; pelvic fins completely separate, with branched rays, not reaching anus; tail fin long (~ 29% of LS), tapering to a narrow rounded tip; body scaled rear wards of between two dorsal fin, 17-25 irregular longitudinal rows, scales rough, smaller and more imbedded at front, scales on base of tail fin not enlarged.
Head and body light tan; lower head orangish, orange spots lower on body; light brown blotches forming broken bars on body, prominent below mid-side; dorsal fins translucent, first with 2 oblique spotted orange lines, second fin with 3 such lines; pectoral fin dusky, with orange edge to lower base; pelvic with black base, white elsewhere; anal fin black, with white border; tail fin with black longitudinal lines on membranes and white rays, with a semicircular orange-yellow blotch on its base, its tip yellowish.
Size: to 4.8 cm.
Habitat: on cobble and sand bottoms.
Depth: 12-55 m.
Known only from the central Gulf of California.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Rocks
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- 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)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Cortez province endemic
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- All species
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- 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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- 4.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 12
- Depth Range Max
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- 55
