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Main identification features
- iris orange
- front dorsal fin black
- body: row dark spots and blotches
- lower jaw: orange and purple
Revillagigedos barnacle-blenny
Top of head behind eyes covered with short spines, inner row between eyes on a bony ridge; spines on edge of and under eye, and on snout; 1 pair of deeply branched to unbranched cirri over eyes; 2 rows of well developed teeth on roof of mouth; dorsal XXIII-XXV, 12-14; anal II, 24-27; pectoral 13 rays.
Color variable; body often with series of brown blotches along midline, with 2 similar blotches on cheek; lower jaw yellow-orange at front, reddish purple at rear; small blue spots often on head & body; iris with orange or yellow inner ring; mating males black, except for orange lower jaw and spot on cheek.
Size: 4 cm.
Habitat: barnacles and worm tubes on rocky shores.
Depth: 0-10 m.
Endemic to the Revillagigedo Islands.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: zooplankton; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); pelagic fish eggs.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=20; Southern limit=19; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-111; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=4.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore; Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Barnacles & worm tubes; Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 4 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Revillagigedos Islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Castro-Aguirre, J.L. and Balart, E.F., 2002., La ictiofauna de las islas Revillagigedos y sus relaciones zoogeograficas, con comentarios acerca de su origen y evolucion. En: Lozano-Vilano, M. L. (Ed.). Libro Jubilar en Honor al Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León:153-170.
- Hastings , P.A. and Robertson, D.R., 1999., Acanthemblemaria atrata and Acanthemblemaria mangognatha, New Species of Eastern Pacific Barnacle Blennies (Chaenopsidae) from Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, and Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico, and their Relationships with other Barnacle Blennies., Revue Francaise de Aquariologie, 25:107-118.
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