Species: Porichthys oculellus, Small-eye midshipman
back: 5-7 saddles; fins clear
Porichthys oculellus Walker & Rosenblatt, 1988
Small-eye midshipman
Body compressed, elongate; head a little flattened above, no tentacles; eye small; one solid spine on opercle; no subopercular spines; teeth like canines; 7-8 lower gill rakers; first dorsal fin 2 solid spines, separate from second dorsal fin; second dorsal 38-40 rays; anal rays 37 (35-38); dorsal and anal fins broadly joined to tail; 12 tail rays; no scales; 4 lateral lines on body with light organs; lower lateral line ends BEHIND same line of light organs.
Pale yellowish brown above, fading to greyish white below; 5-7 grey-brown saddles on back, 1 across nape, & 1 across rear of head & operculum; dark half moon shaped blotch under eye; a pale blotch on preopercle; dorsal, anal and tail fins very pale translucent yellow.
Size: 8.4 cm.
Habitat: sand and mud bottoms.
Depth: 5-10 m.
Panama to Colombia.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- 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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- Soft bottom only
- Estuary
- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- 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
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- No pelagic larva
- Benthic
- No pelagic phase
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Panamic province endemic
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Continent only
- Continental 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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- 8.4
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 10
