Species: Batrachoides pacifici, Pacific toadfish

large eyes
filaments on snout
D 25-27; A 21-23

Batrachoides pacifici (Günther, 1861)
Pacific toadfish
Body elongate, depressed at front, compressed at rear; head broad, depressed; filaments on snout back to level of eyes; eyes large; mouth strongly oblique, lower jaw projecting; teeth pointed; 2 solid spines on upper opercle and 2 below and behind those; dorsal fin with 3 solid spines, spiny and soft parts joined; dorsal rays III + 25-27; anal rays 21-23; dorsal and anal fins not joined to tail fin; 12-14 glandular pores on membranes on inner side of pectoral fin; 2 lateral lines, the upper broken below middle portion of second dorsal fin and again below posterior most dorsal rays, no light organs; body covered with small imbedded scales; head and breast without scales; scales on nape reach before transverse lateral line canal on rear of head.
Generally brown, darker on back; belly whitish; body and dorsal fin with dark bars; a dark brown oblique bar sometimes evident on cheek.
Size: reaches 32 cm.
Inhabits sand bottoms adjacent to rocky areas, also occurs in tidepools.
Depth: 1-20 m.
Eastern Panama to northern Peru.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Freshwater
- 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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- Mud
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Freshwater
- 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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- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No pelagic phase
- No data
- No pelagic larva
- 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
- All species
- Continent only
- Panamic province endemic
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 32
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 20