Species: Nealotus tripes, Black snake-mackerel, Striped snake-mackerel
long head; large eye
D2 & A: 2 finlets behind
A: II free spines, 1st large
Nealotus tripes Johnson, 1865
Black snake-mackerel, Striped snake-mackerel
Elongate, slender, compressed; head long, pointed, top profile straight; eye large; mouth large, horizontal, oat front, lower jaw a little projecting; teeth large, conical, large fangs at front top jaw; dorsal fin with long base, (XX-XXI), deep notch between 2 parts, 2nd dorsal with shorter base, 2 finlets after; anal fin with II free spines at front (1st a large dagger), then 15-19 rays, 2 finlets at end; each pelvic fin = 1 tiny spine; tail fin forked; 1 straight lateral line along length of body; skin smooth, scales small, smooth.
Blackish brown; dorsal and anal clear; inside mouth and gill chamber black.
Size: 30 cm.
Habitat: oceanic pelagic.
Depth: 0-820 m.
Circumtropical; known from the southern half of our region to Chile.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Offshore
- Offshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Near Surface
- Water column only
- Mid Water
- Surface
- Habitat
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- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathypelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Pelagic crustacea
- Data
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- All species
- East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West)
- TEP non-endemic
- Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America)
- East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- All species
- 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)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 820
