Eleotris picta

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	PERCIFORMES	ELEOTRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Eleotris picta

Species Authority:

Kner, 1863

Common Name/s:

English	–	Spotted Sleeper
Spanish	–	Guavina Machada, Mongolo, Vieja

Synonym/s:

Eleotris pictus Kner, 1863

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2010
Assessor/s:	Van Tassell, J.
Reviewer/s:	Carpenter, K., Polidoro, B. & Livingstone, S. (Global Marine Species Assessment Team)
Contributor/s:
Justification: This species is widespread in the Eastern Pacific, and is common throughout its range. There are no known major threats to this species, and no current indication of population decline. It is listed as Least Concern.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is endemic to the Eastern Pacific, and is found from central Baja California and the central Gulf of California, Mexico to northern Peru, including Cocos and the Galapagos Islands (Pezold and Cage, 2002)
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast
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Population [top]

Population:	This species is relatively common within its suitable habitat.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This species inhabits rivers of low to high current velocity, generally occuring in freshwater but sometimes in slightly brackish river mouths. It is normally more abundant near the coast and only large individuals are found upstream. It feeds on small shrimps and fishes and it has pelagic eggs and larvae (Bussing and Lopez, 2005). According to Cooke (1992) this species is regularly found in middle estuaries, mangroves, bar-formed lagoons and upper estuaries along the tropical eastern Pacific coast. It has also been found in a high saline lake in Salton Sea in California (Pezold and Cage, 2002), but it is not clear if this is the result of an introduction.
Systems:	Freshwater; Marine

Habitat and Ecology:

This species inhabits rivers of low to high current velocity, generally occuring in freshwater but sometimes in slightly brackish river mouths. It is normally more abundant near the coast and only large individuals are found upstream. It feeds on small shrimps and fishes and it has pelagic eggs and larvae (Bussing and Lopez, 2005). According to Cooke (1992) this species is regularly found in middle estuaries, mangroves, bar-formed lagoons and upper estuaries along the tropical eastern Pacific coast. It has also been found in a high saline lake in Salton Sea in California (Pezold and Cage, 2002), but it is not clear if this is the result of an introduction.

Systems:

Freshwater; Marine

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats known for this species.

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats known for this species.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no known conservation measures for this species. However, this species distribution falls partially into a number of Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Pacific region (WDPA 2006).

Conservation Actions:

There are no known conservation measures for this species. However, this species distribution falls partially into a number of Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Pacific region (WDPA 2006).

Citation:	Van Tassell, J. 2010. Eleotris picta. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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