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Main identification features
- eye cirrus bushy
- d: deep notch, front - black spot
- head: orange dots
- male: grey, orange spots upper body
- female: 6 dark blotches + orange spots
Gill opening restricted to sides of head; no fleshy crest on nape; a long curved canine tooth at back of each jaw; no skin flap at rear of bottom jaw; a deep notch between spiny and soft parts of dorsal fin; eye cirrus multiply branched; dorsal XI-XII,13-14; pelvics I,4; pectorals 14 rays; anal soft rays 14-16.
Males greenish grey with small orange spots on upper body; female with six square blotches each composed of 4 dark spots overlain by orange dots; both sexes with orange dots on head; a dark spot at front of dorsal fin; a dark spot on the base of the pectoral; a dark spot at the base of the tail fin; a row of dark spots along the anal base.
Size: reaches 7.5 cm.
Habitat: mangroves and shallow rock outcrops; in turbid water and enters freshwater.
Depth: 0-2 m.
Endemic to the Greater Caribbean; evidently has passed through the Panama Canal, as a small population is present in disused lock chamber at the Pacific entrance to the Canal.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 2 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: benthic microalgae; detritus; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=9; Southern limit=9; Western limit=-80; Eastern limit=-80; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=1.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Omnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: West Atlantic Introducee; TEP non-endemic; All species.
Habitat: Estuary; Rocks; Mangrove; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Freshwater; Reef and soft bottom; Reef (rock &/or coral).
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 7.5 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Brackish; Freshwater; Non Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Bath, H., 1994., Untersuchung der Arten Hypleurochilus geminatus (Wood 1825), H. fissicornis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) und *H. aequipinnis* (Günther 1861), mit Revalidation von *Hypleurochilus multifilis* (Girard 1858) und Beschreibung von zwei neuen Arten., Senckenbergiana Biologica, 74:59-85.
- McCosker , J. E. and Dawson, C. E., 1975., Biotic passage through the Panama Canal, with particular reference to fishes., Marine Biology, 30:343-351.
- Randall, J.E., 1966., The West Indian blenniid fishes of the genus Hypleurochilus, with the description of a new species., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 79:57-72.
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