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Xenomedea rhodopyga Rosenblatt and Taylor, 1971
REDRUMP BLENNY
Red-rump blenny

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Xenomedea rhodopyga
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Xenomedea rhodopyga

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Xenomedea rhodopyga
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Xenomedea rhodopyga
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Overview
Main identification features
  • d: notch after spines, front not high
  • d: black spot at front
  • oblique brown and white bars behind eye
  • a: base with fleshy ridge, longer in male
Dorsal rays XX to XXIII, 8-11, no notch after spines, front not high; anal rays II, 18-22; total (right and left) pectoral rays 24-28 (usually 26); lateral-line scales 39-45; a short, unbranched cirrus on each nostril, above eye, and on each side of nape; teeth conical, curved, and pointed; roof of mouth with teeth only at front; first anal spine of males very short and not separated from anal fin and modified as intromittent organ; front of anal fin surrounded by fleshy folds that extend posteriorly along anal fin base during spawning periods.

Color of body variable, either plain pinkish to strongly marked with brown bars or squarish brown to red blotches, flecked with white; an oblique brown band with white band immediately above rear corner of eye and another just below; a small black spot at front of dorsal fin; a white bar on base of pectoral fin.

Maximum size, 6.5 cm.

Habitat: relatively common on rocky, weed-covered reefs from tide pools.

Depth: 1-33 m.

Western and central eastern Gulf of California.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap).
Depth Range Max: 33 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=31; Southern limit=24; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=7; Longitudinal range=5.
Egg Type: Live birth; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Macroalgae; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 6.5 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Cortez province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
  • Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398.
  • Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
  • Rosenblatt , R.H. and Taylor, L.R., 1971., The Pacific species of the clinid fish tribe Starksiini., Pac. Sci., 25:436-463.
  • Thomson , D.A. , Findley , L.T. and Kerstitch, A.N., 2000., Reef fishes of the Sea of Cortez., University of Texas Press(Revised Ed.):353.
  • Villareal-Cavazos, A., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Bermúdez-Almada, B. and Arizpe-Covarrubias, O., 2000., Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: Lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía., Rev. Biol. Trop., 48:413-424.

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