Species: Aplatophis zorro, Snaggle-toothed snake-eel

top snout concave

Aplatophis zorro McCosker & Robertson, 2001
Snaggle-toothed snake-eel
Body stout, not elongate, compressed at rear; head and trunk slightly longer than tail (51-54% of TL); head long and fat, with a hump over and behind the eye; snout short, narrow, upper profile concave; mouth oblique, jaws elongate, the lower one projecting; tongue developed as a fleshy lure; front teeth developed as very large fangs extending outside mouth when closed; jaw teeth in two rows, teeth on roof of mouth few, a single series that joins those at front of jaws; a short barbel below eye; eye small, low on head above and a little before middle of mouth; front nostril tubular, rear nostril a tube before and beneath eye; gill opening vertical, elongate, on side; dorsal fin origin behind pectoral tips; tail tip blunt; pectoral fins pointed, with narrow base.
Body and head grey-brown, paler on lower 1/3; eye grey; pectoral fin a little darker than body; dorsal fin same color as body, with thin black margin; anal fin same color as lower body with outer 1/3 black; tip of tail pale; lateral line pores on body not in pale spots; pores around mouth and on side of head above and before gill opening in small pale spots; lines of white dots on side and top of the head, which form the letter U across the top of the head (when viewed from above) and a zigzag on the side of the head that forms the letter Z on the right side.
Size: 104 cm.
Habitat: mud bottom in estuary. Known from a single specimen collected by a shrimp trawler.
Depth: 5-10 m.
Eastern Panama.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Mud
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Panamic province endemic
- All species
- Continent only
- Continent
- Continental TEP endemic
- 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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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 104
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 10