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Starksia lepidogaster
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Starksia lepidogaster

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Starksia spinipenis
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Starksia spinipenis
Starksia spinipenis
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Starksia spinipenis

Starksia posthon
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Starksia posthon
Starksia grammilaga
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Starksia grammilaga

Starksia cremnobates
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Starksia cremnobates
Starksia galapagensis
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Starksia galapagensis

Starksia posthon
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Starksia posthon
Starksia posthon
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Starksia posthon

Starksia posthon
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Starksia posthon
Starksia fulva
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Starksia fulva

Starksia fulva
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Starksia fulva
Starksia fulva
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Starksia fulva

Starksia fulva
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Starksia fulva
Starksia fulva
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Starksia fulva

Starksia
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Starksia
Kinds
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Overview
Main identification features
  • cirri: simple, nape and eye
  • d: front not high, notch behind spines
  • a: male - 1st spine long, free, = sex organ
  • a: base without fleshy crest
STARKSIA

BLENNIES

Bluntly pointed head; nostril, eye and nape cirri unbranched, sometimes leaf-like; 1st anal spine of male long, free from rest of fin, modified as sexual organ; no ridge or fold along anal fin base; no dark spot on dorsal between 1st 2 spines; notch between spines and rays of dorsal fin.

A neotropical genus of 29 species; 9 endemics occur in the eastern Pacific, 7 of them in our region.


References
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  • Galván-Magaña, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., Pérez-España, H., Chávez-Ramos, H., 1996., Systematics list of the fishes from Cerralvo island, Baja California Sur, Mexico., Ciencias Marinas, 22:295-311.
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  • Gilbert, C.H., 1890., A preliminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer "Albatross" on the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new genera and ninety-two new species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 13:49-126.
  • 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.
  • Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Rosenblatt , R.H. and Taylor, L.R., 1972., A second record of Starksia posthon (Clinidae) with an expanded description., Copeia, 1972(3):599.
  • Stepien , C.A. , Dixon , M.T. and Hillis, D.M., 1993., Evolutionary relationships of the blennioid fish families Clinidae, Labrisomidae and Chaenopsidae: Congruence Between DNA Sequence and Allozyme Data., Bull. Mar. Sci., 52:496-515.
  • 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.
  • Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224.
  • 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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