Species: Stathmonotus gymnodermis, Naked blenny
Stathmonotus gymnodermis Springer, 1955
Naked blenny
Elongate, worm-like body; short, bluntly pointed head with large oblique mouth; cirri on nostrils, over eye (flap-like), on nape, and on lower corner of preoperculum; teeth on front of roof of mouth; rear edge of preopercle covered with skin; dorsal fin composed entirely of spines, XLI-XLVI; anal fin II, 21-26; dorsal and anal fins at most slightly joined to tail fin; pectoral fin well developed, 8-9 rays; pelvics I (internal), 2-3, inserted before pectoral base; all fin rays unbranched; no scales; no lateral line.
Red-brown to green to dark grey; sometimes mottled with dark blotches, or with dark or white spots; typically a pale bar angled down and back from eye.
Reaches 4 cm.
Lives in hard substrata on exposed shorelines.
Depth range: 1-5 m.
The Bahamas to the S Caribbean.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- 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
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- 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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- Continent + Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Continent
- All species..
- Island (s)
- 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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- 4
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
