Species: Quassiremus nothochir, Redbanded snake-eel, Redsaddled snake-eel, Smallfish snake-eel
Quassiremus nothochir (Gilbert, 1890)
Redsaddled snake-eel, Redbanded snake-eel, Smallfish snake-eel
Body stout, compressed at rear; tail 44-47% of TL; snout conical, overhanging, with a short groove underneath; front nostril tubular, rear nostril opens into mouth; lips without barbells; teeth pointed, in single rows on jaws and roof of mouth; gill opening a vertical crescent low on side; dorsal fin origin behind gill opening; pectoral fin minute (< eye diameter), its narrow base opposite the top ½ of the gill opening; tail tip a blunt, finless point; lateral line complete, lines of each side of head connected by 2 canals with across top of head.
Ground color cream to tan; head with close- set black spots; about 15 large black-edged, red/orange, saddle-like markings on body, with large and small black spots in the spaces between.
Size: reaches about 70 cm.
Habitat: rubble and rocky bottoms.
Depth: 1-80 m.
The Gulf of California to Panama.
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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 associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Rocks
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 70
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 80
