Species: Acyrtops amplicirrus, Flarenostril Clingfish

Acyrtops amplicirrus Briggs, 1955
Flarenostril Clingfish
Body fairly short; head relatively large and wide; eye relatively small (53-63% of space between eyes); skin flap from nostril large, length =/> distance between front and rear nostrils; top lip narrow, about the same width at front as at sides; teeth at front of top jaw sharp pointed, compressed, with a patch of small, conical teeth behind them, lower incisors serrated; a few small fleshy lobes under lower jaw, but nowhere else on head; nostrils well separated, tubular; 6-7 broad gill rakers on 2nd arch; sucker disc relatively small (<25% of SL), with short papillae at front and rear and a small patch in center; pectoral fin 22 (21-22), lowest 5-7 rays distinctly reduced in size, a small fleshy pad on lower pectoral base; median fins short; dorsal fin 5-6; anal fin 5-7, like dorsal fin and under it; tail 8; no scales; lateral line present as pores on head only.
Color: bright green to brownish, with white spots and lines; dark lines radiate from eye.
Reaches 1.9 cm.
Lives in Thalassia seagrass beds.
Depth range: 1-3 m.
The E Caribbean.
Note: the taxonomic relationship between A. amplicirrus and A. beryllinus is confused and their distributions uncertain.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
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- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Caribbean endemic
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
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- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 1.9
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 3