Acanthemblemaria
Acanthemblemaria atrata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Chaenopsidae
Genus: Acanthemblemaria
Metzelaar, 1919
Type species
Acanthemblemaria spinosa
Metzelaar, 1919

Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Etymology

Acanthemblemaria: Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass or high relief[1]

Description

Body elongated; head short and blunt; pointed or blunt spines on snout, below eye, sometimes on top of head; 2 rows of very well developed teeth on the roof of the mouth; 1 pair of branched or unbranched cirri over eyes; cirri over nostrils; usually with a notch between the spiny and soft parts of the dorsal fin

Species

The 21 recognized species in this genus are:[2]

Behavior and diet

Acanthemblemaria are mostly filter feeding fishes, they inhabit coral reefs, rocky reefs and abandoned worm and mollusc tubes.[4]

They feed mostly on passing benthic crustaceans, zooplankton, benthic worms,

References

  1. "Acanthemblemaria aspera, Roughhead blenny : aquarium". www.fishbase.de. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Acanthemblemaria in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. Lin, Hsiu-Chin; Grantly R. Galland (2010). "Molecular analysis of Acanthemblemaria macrospilus (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae) with description of a new species from the Gulf of California, Mexico" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2525: 51–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2525.1.3.
  4. "Shorefishes - Homepage". biogeodb.stri.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.


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