Acanthemblemaria

Acanthemblemaria
	Acanthemblemaria atrata
Scientific 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]

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)^[3]
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 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

^ "Acanthemblemaria aspera, Roughhead blenny : aquarium". www.fishbase.de. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Acanthemblemaria". FishBase. February 2013 version.
^ 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.
^ "Shorefishes - Homepage". biogeodb.stri.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.

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[1] "Acanthemblemaria aspera, Roughhead blenny : aquarium". www.fishbase.de. Retrieved 2023-01-03.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Acanthemblemaria". 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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