Species: Emblemaria hyltoni, Filament blenny
eye cirrus 2X eye
Emblemaria hyltoni Johnson & Greenfield, 1976
Filament blenny
Body elongate; head short and blunt, without spines; 2 smooth longitudinal ridges on snout; 1 unbranched cirrus over eye that is ~twice eye length; head cirri shorter in female 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XXI-XXIII, 14-16, an obvious gap between spines II-IV, first 2 spines of male very long and filamentous, the 1st spine ~2/3 SL, rest of front of fin not elevated, female has same elongate spines as male at front of dorsal fin, rest of fin a bit lower than that of male; anal fin II, 23; pelvics I (internal), inserted before pectoral base, longer than pectoral, with 2 obvious rays (3rd ray vestigial or <1/5 length of longest ray); pectoral 14; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales.
Body cream, with faint irregular dark bars on upper body; two rows of white spots from behind eye along body, top row of 14 spots alternates with small burnt orange spots along under first 8 spines of dorsal fin, 7 in row along mid-flank to under 20th dorsal spine, orange spots between front 2 white spots of lower row; a white or orange spot before pectoral base; head cream, with dark dots, edge of preopercle with 6 white spots, midline of operculum burnt orange; iris yellow, a black ring around eye; long spines at front of dorsal fin black, with 11 white stripes, remainder of fin with black base, white outer edge; anal fin black with white edge; tail fin with clear base, black remainder; pectoral clear; pelvics black on base, rest clear. Female is less pigmented than male.
Reaches 2.6 cm.
Found on vertical rock faces of dropoffs.
Depth range: 15-20 m.
NW Caribbean.
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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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- Rocks
- Corals
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Caribbean endemic
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Island (s) only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 2.6
- Depth Range Min
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- 15
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
