Species: Lucayablennius zingaro, Arrow blenny

mouth long, lower jaw projects
yellow stripes - top head; side back

Lucayablennius zingaro (Bohlke, 1957)
Arrow blenny
Elongate; head elongate, pointed, not spiny on top; no cirri on nostrils, eyes or nape; jaws long; top lips only on sides of jaws; tip of lower jaw with a pointed fleshy projection; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XIX-XXI, 19-21 soft rays, no notch between spines and rays; lower pectoral rays longer than upper rays; pelvics I (internal), 2-3, inserted before pectoral base; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales.
Reddish with yellow marbling on rear of body; a dark brown stripe from operculum through eye and along side of snout; a yellow stripe along top of head from snout to nape, another along upper back; 3 large black spots on upper back and basal part of soft dorsal fin, 2 such spots on lower body extending onto soft anal fin; dorsal and anal fins darker in male.
Reaches 5.7 cm.
Lives on reef dropoffs; resting fish sit inside tube sponges.
Depth range: 7-109 m; usually below 15 m.
The Bahamas to the SW 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
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Water column
- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- GC endemic
- Continent
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- 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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- 5.7
- Depth Range Min
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- 7
- Depth Range Max
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- 109