Species: Chaenopsis roseola, Flecked pike-blenny
flank: 8 black blotches
cheek - 2-3 elongate rusty blotches
Chaenopsis roseola Hastings & Shipp, 1981
Flecked pike-blenny
Body very elongate, but relatively short for this genus; head long; snout long & strongly pointed, but relatively short for the genus; no cirri on head; long mouth, reaching far behind eye, tip of lower jaw projecting; dorsal fin low in both sexes, XVII- XVIII, 26-28; anal fin II, 29-30; dorsal and anal joined to tail fin; tail rounded; pelvics I (internal), 2-3, inserted before pectoral base; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales.
Straw colored, lower side of body with 8 black blotches, 1st over mid-belly, last on tail base, 1st 6 are inverted triangles, last 2 are horizontally elongated, some of front blotches with rusty flecks inside them; upper back with dark saddles above first 7 blotches, plus one more before pectoral base; rusty flecks on preoperculum, operculum, snout and around mouth, cheek with 2-3 horizontally elongate rusty blotches; males with black blotch between first 4 dorsal spines; female with paired rusty spots along lower body above anal fin .
Reaches 4.8 cm.
Lives in areas of shelly rubble.
Depth range: 30-64 m.
North Carolina to Caribbean Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- 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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- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends North of GC
- All species..
- GC non-endemic
- Continent only
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Temperate (>35N)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 4.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 30
- Depth Range Max
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- 64
