Species: Batrachoides boulengeri, Boulenger's toadfish, Sorcerer toadfish

small eyes
no filaments between eyes

Batrachoides boulengeri (Gilbert & Starks, 1904)
Sorcerer toadfish, Boulenger's toadfish
Body elongate, depressed at front, compressed at rear; head broad, depressed, without filaments between eyes; eyes small; mouth strongly oblique, lower jaw projecting; teeth pointed; 2 strong solid spines on upper opercle and 2 more below and behind those; dorsal fin with 3 solid spines, spiny and soft parts joined; dorsal rays III + 28-30; anal rays 26-27; dorsal and anal fins not joined to tail fin; a conspicuous pore at base of 16th-19th interradial membranes on inner side of pectoral fin; 2 lateral lines, the upper broken below posterior third of second dorsal fin and continued below posterior most part of fin as 4-15 pores; no light organs; body covered with small imbedded scales; head and breast scaleless; scales on nape reach to before transverse lateral line canal on rear of head.
Generally brown with diffuse dark saddles on back; belly whitish.
Maximum size, 40 cm.
Inhabits bays and estuaries.
Depth: 1-30 m?
Panama.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Bony fishes
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- Continent
- Panamic province 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
- Vulnerable
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 40
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 30