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Main identification features
- eye cirri: 5 pr, very bushy
- very elongate
- head greeneye blackbody reddish
Dorsal low, very long base, XVII-XX, 31-34 (usually XIX, 32 or 33), total dorsal elements 50-53; anal rays II, 32-36 (usually 34 or 35); pectoral rays 12-14 (usually 13); jaws with outer row of spatulate teeth; eye cirri forming a dense bushy mass between eyes, composed of five pairs of cirri; body long and slender (depth at dorsal origin 8-10% of standard length); head blunt; preopercle border not skin covered.
Head olive; eye black; body reddish brown, with olive blotches; dorsal and tail fins with reddish rays.
Size: to 8 cm.
Inhabits mollusc and worm tubes on near-vertical rock faces.
Depth: 1-30 m.
Costa Rica and western Panama.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: zooplankton; pelagic fish eggs.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=10; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-85; Eastern limit=-81; Latitudinal range=2; Longitudinal range=4.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
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: 8 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Panamic province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
- Hastings, P.A., 2000., Biogeography of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: distribution and phylogeny of chaenopsid fishes., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 128:319-335.
- Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26.
- Rosenblatt , R.H. and Stephens, J.S. Jr., 1978., Mccoskerichthys sandae, a new and unusual chaenopsid blenny from the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica., Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 293:1-22.
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