FB-58618 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=58618 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Gobiiformes Gobiidae Asterropteryx Asterropteryx striata Allen & Munday, 1995 Bicolor toadfish Sapo bicolor Opsanus beta (non Goode & Bean, 1880) Opsanus tau (non Linnaeus, 1766) 2002-01-21 2013-04-08 Greenfield, D.W. and T. Greenfield0 Triathalassothia gloverensis, a new species of toadfish from Belize (=British Honduras) with remarks on the genus. Copeia 1973(3):561-565. (Ref. 30720) Collette, B.B.0 Opsanus dichrostomus, a new toadfish (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) from the western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (731):1-16. (Ref. 41041) Collette, B.B.0 Batrachoididae. Toadfishes. p. 1026-1042. In K.E. Carpenter (ed.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Vol. 2: Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). (Ref. 50841) Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea and J.D. Williams0 Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland. ix, 386 p. + 1 CD. (Ref. 52299) Greenfield, D.W., R. Winterbottom and B.B. Collette0 Review of the toadfish genera (Teleostei: Batrachoididae). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (Series 4), 59(15):665-710. (Ref. 86865) Lobel, P.S. and L.K. Lobel0 Endemic marine fishes of Belize: evidence of isolation in a unique ecological region. pp. 48-51. In Palomares, M.L.D., Pauly, D. (eds.). Too Precious to Drill: the Marine Biodiversity of Belize. Fisheries Centre ResearchReports 19(6). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia. (Ref. 88930) FAO-FIES0 Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) species list. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en (accessed 08/06/2017). (Ref. 115257) FB-pic-58624-51522 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 2009-08-06 2010-07-09 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged FAO General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=58624 http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Opdic_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Opdic_u0.gif FB-DiagnosticDescr-58624 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2002-01-22 00:00:00 2002-01-22 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=58624 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription Narrow interorbital distance (29-65 thousandths of SL), usually less than the diameter of the orbit (60-104 thousandths of SL), versus usually equal to or wider than the orbit diameter in other Opsanus species. Similar to O. phobetron, both usually have the posterior part of lower half of the mouth darkly pigmented in specimens over 7 cm SL. Upper lateral-line papillae 26, lower 23. Pectoral fin glands 12, starting between uppermost 2 pectoral fin-rays (Ref. 41041). Collette, B.B. 2001 Opsanus dichrostomus, a new toadfish (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) from the western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (731):1-16. (Ref. 41041) FB-Morphology-58624 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2002-01-22 00:00:00 2002-01-22 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=58624 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 23 - 26; Analsoft rays: 20 - 22; Vertebrae: 32 - 35 Collette, B.B. 2001 Opsanus dichrostomus, a new toadfish (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) from the western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (731):1-16. (Ref. 41041) FB-Distribution-58624 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2002-01-22 00:00:00 2002-01-22 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=58624 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Western Atlantic: Western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Collette, B.B. 2001 Opsanus dichrostomus, a new toadfish (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) from the western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (731):1-16. (Ref. 41041) FB-Size-58624 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2002-01-22 00:00:00 2002-01-22 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=58624 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses 12.6 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 41041)) Collette, B.B. 2001 Opsanus dichrostomus, a new toadfish (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) from the western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (731):1-16. (Ref. 41041) 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#LifeCycle 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-58624 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2002-01-22 00:00:00 2002-01-22 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=58624 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy demersal; marine; depth range 1 - 5 m (Ref. 41041) Collette, B.B. 2001 Opsanus dichrostomus, a new toadfish (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) from the western Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (731):1-16. (Ref. 41041)