Acanthemblemaria | |
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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
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Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Acanthemblemaria : Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass or high relief [1]
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
The 21 recognized species in this genus are: [2]
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,
Acanthemblemaria | |
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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.
Acanthemblemaria : Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass or high relief [1]
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
The 21 recognized species in this genus are: [2]
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,