Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Stichaeidae > Cebidichthys > Cebidichthys violaceus

Cebidichthys violaceus (Monkeyface prickleback; Monkey-face eel)

Synonyms: Apodichthys violaceus; Cebidichthys cristagalli
Language: Chinese; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The monkeyface prickleback (Cebidichthys violaceus), also commonly known as the monkeyface eel, is a species of prickleback native to the Pacific coast of North America. Despite being commonly called an eel due to its body shape, it does not fall into the fish order Anguilliformes with true eels, but the Perciformes along with most bony fishes.
View Wikipedia Record: Cebidichthys violaceus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary   California, United States
Channel Islands National Park II 139010 California, United States

Prey / Diet

Phyllospadix scouleri (Scouler's surfgrass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Xiphister mucosus (Rock prickleback)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Opisthadena bodegensis[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Optimal diets in complex environments: feeding strategies of two herbivorous fishes from a temperate rocky intertidal zone, M.H. Horn, Oecologia (Berlin)(1983) 58:345-350
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0