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Main identification features
- rear body: 2 rows dark spots
- lips: 2 pair bars
Dorsal rays XX to XXII, 8-9; anal rays II, 16-19; total (right and left) pectoral rays 25-28 (usually 26); lateral-line scales 38-42; all of lateral line with tubes; a short, unbranched cirrus on each nostril, above eye, and on each side of nape; teeth of jaws conical, curved, and pointed; roof of mouth with teeth only at front; first anal spine of males separate from anal fin and modified as an intromittent organ; tip of male genital papilla not extending beyond fleshy tip of second anal spine.
Yellowish to reddish brown with scattered white flecks on side, usually diffuse brown bars on side and 4-5 small dark spots on posterior half of body just above middle of side; lips with 2 pair of dark bars.
Size: attains 4.5 cm.
Inhabits rocky, weed-covered reefs.
Depth: 1-25 m.
Galapagos Islands.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 25 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=2; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-90; Latitudinal range=4; Longitudinal range=3.
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: 4.5 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Galapagos Islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Herrera, G.A. and Lavenberg, R.J., 1999., Larval Labrisomidae (Pisces: Blenniioidei) from the Galapagos Islands., Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 478:1-24.
- Rosenblatt , R.H. and Taylor, L.R., 1971., The Pacific species of the clinid fish tribe Starksiini., Pac. Sci., 25:436-463.
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