Species: Emblemariopsis leptocirris, Fine-cirrus blenny
short eye cirrus
other fins dark
Emblemariopsis leptocirris Stephens, 1970
Fine-cirrus blenny
Body elongate; head thick, short and blunt, without spines; snout with a pair of smooth bony ridges; 1 unbranched short (<eye) cirrus over eye; front of roof of mouth with 5-6 small teeth; 1 row of 6-7 teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XIX-XXI, 10-13, 1st 5 spines of ~equal length, no notch between spines II-V, spiny part lower than soft part; anal fin II, 20-22; pectoral rays 12-13; pelvics I (internal), 3, inserted before pectoral base, much shorter than pectorals; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales; no strong differences between sexes.
Preserved fish: light brown; head and front half of body evenly covered with dark dots; head with 3-4 dark spots on preopercle and rear edge of opercle; cheeks pale, rest of head brown; anal fin spines dark, inner ¼ of soft fin brown; front of dorsal fin with dark pigment to its outer edge, that pigment at base of fin from 4th soft ray back; tail, pectorals and pelvics dark brown; tongue and roof of mouth dark
Reaches 2.6 cm.
Lives on reefs - lagoonal patch reefs, dropoffs and oceanic reefs.
Depth range: 1-18 m.
The Turks & Caicos to the SW Caribbean.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- 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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- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Insular primarily
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 2.6
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 18
