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Beaked Sandfish

Gonorynchus moseleyi Jordan & Snyder 1923

Diagnostic Description

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Exceptionally large eye, mean eye length 6.3% in SL; mean head length 26.7 in SL (Ref. 38037).
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Estelita Emily Capuli
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Morphology

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Analsoft rays: 8; Vertebrae: 55
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Biology

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Burrowing in sand and benthic, sometimes pelagic at shallow depths (Ref. 58302).
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