Species: Chaenopsis roseola, Flecked Pikeblenny

Chaenopsis roseola Hastings & Shipp, 1981

Flecked Pikeblenny

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; pectoral 12-14; 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.