Species: Chaenopsis megalops, Bigeye Pike-blenny
eye large

flank: 9 pr double spots
Chaenopsis megalops Smith-Vaniz, 2000
Bigeye Pike-blenny
Body very elongate; head long; snout long & strongly pointed, but relatively short, bluntly U shaped when viewed from above; eye large (4.8-5.5% of SL); 1 pore above rear edge of each eye, with a central pore between those two; no cirri on head; long mouth, reaching far behind eye, tip of lower jaw projecting; 14-15 gill rakers; dorsal fin XVII-XVIII, 35-36, front of fin low in male; anal fin II, 36; dorsal and anal fins broadly connected to tail fin; pelvics I (internal), 2-3, inserted before pectoral base; tail fin rounded; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales.
Nine pairs of double spots along side behind pectoral fin; a black oval spot above corner of mouth at level of lower edge of eye; a dark pupil-sized spot on cheek behind eye; males with a small ocellus between dorsal spines II-III.
Reaches 11 cm.
Habitat: trawled from soft bottoms.
Depth range: 60-79 m.
SW Caribbean.

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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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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Mud
- 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
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- 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 only
- GC endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 11
- Depth Range Min
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- 60
- Depth Range Max
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- 79