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(Ref. 137577) FB-GeneralDescr-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1996-11-21 00:00:00 2025-07-29 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Lives in rocky reefs, sheltering in caves and crevices but also encountered in the open (Ref. 11482). Lies motionless, often on its side, hidden in dark recesses. Actively hunts at night, preying on small fish (Ref. 5227). Allen, G.R. and D.R. Robertson 1994 Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 p. (Ref. 11482) FB-DiagnosticDescr-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2003-07-21 00:00:00 2003-07-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 Sides of body, excluding cheeks, mottled with cream to pale-brown blotches on dark background, reaching onto bases of median fins; blotches are poorly-defined and often coalescing. Body and head, excluding lips and maxillary, with embedded scales. Dorsal spines 3 (rarely 2). Lower jaw projecting, with prominent fleshy protuberance. Numerous, small pores, in patches, along ventral surface of lower jaw and on the free-edge of preopercle in > 6.5 cm SL specimens (Ref. 40934). McCarthy, L.V. 1979 Eastern Pacific <i>Rypticus</i> (Pisces: Grammistidae). Copeia 1979(3):393-400. (Ref. 40934) FB-Morphology-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2003-07-21 00:00:00 2003-07-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 23 - 26; Analsoft rays: 16 - 18; Vertebrae: 24 McCarthy, L.V. 1979 Eastern Pacific <i>Rypticus</i> (Pisces: Grammistidae). Copeia 1979(3):393-400. (Ref. 40934) FB-Distribution-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1996-11-21 00:00:00 2025-11-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Eastern Pacific: Baja California to Peru, including the Galapagos and other offshore islands. Allen, G.R. and D.R. Robertson 1994 Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 p. (Ref. 11482) FB-Uses-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1996-11-21 00:00:00 2025-07-29 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses fisheries: commercial FB-TrophicStrategy-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2007-08-16 00:00:00 2025-07-29 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public bicolor http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Lives in rocky reefs, sheltering in caves and crevices but also encountered in the open (Ref. 11482). Lies motionless, often on its side, hidden in dark recesses. Actively hunts at night, preying on small fish (Ref. 5227). Carnivore (Ref. 57615). Allen, G.R. and D.R. Robertson 1994 Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 p. (Ref. 11482) FB-Size-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1996-11-21 00:00:00 2025-07-29 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats 28.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 5227)) Humann, P. and N. DeLoach 1993 Reef fish identification. Galápagos. New World Publications, Inc., Florida. 267 p. (Ref. 5227) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-25545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1996-11-21 00:00:00 2025-07-29 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=25545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution demersal; marine; depth range 3 - 68 m (Ref. 5227) Humann, P. and N. DeLoach 1993 Reef fish identification. Galápagos. New World Publications, Inc., Florida. 267 p. (Ref. 5227)