Acanthemblemaria
| Acanthemblemaria | |
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| Acanthemblemaria atrata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Chaenopsidae |
| Genus: | Acanthemblemaria Metzelaar, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919 | |
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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 [sic] 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[2] over eyes; cirri over nostrils; usually with a notch between the spiny and soft parts of the dorsal fin.
Species
The 22 recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Acanthemblemaria aceroi Hastings, Eytan & Summers, 2020 (Blue-spotted barnacle blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria aspera (Longley, 1927) (roughhead blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria atrata Hastings & D. R. Robertson, 1999 (Cocos barnacle blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria balanorum Brock, 1940 (clubhead blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria betinensis Smith-Vaniz & Palacio, 1974 (speckled blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria castroi J. S. Stephens & Hobson, 1966 (Galapagos barnacle blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria chaplini J. E. Böhlke, 1957 (papillose blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria crockeri Beebe & Tee-Van, 1938 (browncheek blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria exilispinus J. S. Stephens, 1963 (bluntspine blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria greenfieldi Smith-Vaniz & Palacio, 1974 (false papillose blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria hancocki G. S. Myers & Reid, 1936 (Hancock's blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria harpeza J. T. Williams, 2002
- Acanthemblemaria hastingsi H. C. Lin & Galland, 2010 (Cortez barnacle blenny)[4]
- Acanthemblemaria johnsoni Almany & C. C. Baldwin, 1996
- Acanthemblemaria macrospilus Brock, 1940 (barnacle blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria mangognatha Hastings & D. R. Robertson, 1999 (Revillagigedo barnacle blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria maria J. E. Böhlke] 1961 (secretary blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria medusa Smith-Vaniz & Palacio, 1974 (Medusa blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria paula G. D. Johnson & Brothers, 1989 (dwarf spinyhead blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria rivasi J. S. Stephens, 1970 (spotjaw blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919 (spinyhead blenny)
- Acanthemblemaria stephensi Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1988 (Malpelo barnacle blenny)
Behavior and diet
Acanthemblemaria species are mostly filter feeding fishes, they inhabit coral reefs, rocky reefs and abandoned worm and mollusc tubes.[5]
They feed mostly on passing benthic crustaceans, zooplankton and benthic worms.
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). "Acanthemblemaria aspera". FishBase.
- ↑ "What are cirri?". Practical Fishkeeping magazine. Warners Group Publications Plc. 13 June 2016.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Acanthemblemaria". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Genus: Acanthemblemaria, Barnacle Blennies". Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Retrieved 2023-01-03.