Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Scientific classification 
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| 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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Etymology
editAcanthemblemaria: Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass or high relief[1]
Description
editBody 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
editThe 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
editAcanthemblemaria 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
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- ^ "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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