Species: Apterichtus equatorialis, Equatorial finless-eel
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Apterichtus equatorialis (Myers & Wade, 1941)
Equatorial finless-eel
Body elongate, cylindrical, pointed at both ends, entirely finless; head and trunk a little shorter than tail; snout pointed, conical, overhanging, underside flattened and grooved; eye moderately developed; front nostril tubular, rear one a horizontal slit along top lip edge or entirely outside mouth before a lip flange; gill openings below, converging forward; teeth pointed, in single rows on jaws; tail tip a hard finless point; lateral line complete, lines of each side of head connected by 2 canals with across top of head.
Pale creamy yellow, with small, irregular brown spots on head and a brown stripe along mid-side.
Size: grows to at least 30 cm.
Habitat: sandy bottoms.
Depth: 15-145 m.
The Gulf of California to Ecuador.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom only
- 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)
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- 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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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 15
- Depth Range Max
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- 145
