Diagnostic Description
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This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: sooty black nasal chambers; few anal fin rays (37 vs. 49-54), few vertebrae (45 vs. 54-58), a wider head (12.0 % SL vs. 7.7-9.8 % SL); a pair of sub-dermal spines fused to form a broad ridge on frontal just behind eyes, a small, median, sub-dermal, ethmoidal spine just in front of eyes and an antero-ventrally directed spine at lower angle of preopercle (all spines covered by skin); anterior gill arch with 3 developed rakers, only slightly larger than the spiny knobs, gill filaments 7-8 times length of developed rakers; slightly prolonged pectoral peduncle; palatines with several tooth rows; vertebrae, precaudal 16 and total 45; fin rays, D 74, A 37, caudal 10 and pectoral 18 (Ref. 93007).
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli
Morphology
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Dorsal soft rays (total): 74; Analsoft rays: 37; Vertebrae: 45
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- Estelita Emily Capuli
Biology
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Rare species, known from a single specimen (Ref. 34024), apparently living on a shallow reef (Ref. 93007).
- Recorder
- Cristina V. Garilao
Importance
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fisheries: of no interest
- Recorder
- Cristina V. Garilao
Parasaccogaster melanomycter: Brief Summary
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Parasaccogaster melanomycter is a species of viviparous brotula endemic to Colombia.
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