Species: Chaenopsis limbaughi, Yellowface pike-blenny
Chaenopsis limbaughi Robins & Randall, 1965
Yellowface pike-blenny
Body very elongate; head long, low, its profile not ascending much to dorsal fin origin; from above, snout is long, broadly U shaped; pore on center of head between rear half of eyes is before the pair of pores immediately above the eye; no cirri on head; long mouth, reaching far behind eye, tip of lower jaw projecting; dorsal fin often elevated at front, with XVIII-XXI, 31-36; anal fin II, 33-37; tail rounded; dorsal and anal joined to tail fin; pelvics I (internal), 2-3, inserted before pectoral base; pectoral 12; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales.
Male: front of head back to between eyes yellow, under head yellow; throat membranes white, yellow or black, with blue rays; with a white-ringed black ocellus (sometimes multiple ocelli) between dorsal spines I-II, and above that the upper 1/3 of the membrane between those spines is orange; iris pink; body tan, a narrow yellowish stripe along mid-flank with paried blackish blotches superimposed on that and ~12 dusky saddles along top of back. Female: tan, with the body stripe and bars, yellow cast to head, yellow under the throat; pink iris; a small indistinct black spot at the front of the dorsal fin.
Reaches 8.2 cm.
Found in worm tubes and free ranging in rubble and sand around reefs.
Depth range: 3-21 m, usually in < 10 m.
The Bahamas, the Caribbean mainland, Cayman Is and the Lesser Antilles.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean endemic
- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Continent
- All species..
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 8.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 21
