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Species: Entomacrodus nigricans, Pearl Blenny

cirri simple: 1-11 over eye, nape 1

green, body - bars + white spots; head - dark spot

D XIII, deep notch

snout rounded, overhanging
top lip - edges wrinkled

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Entomacrodus nigricans Gill, 1859

Pearl Blenny

Body very elongate; head short and blunt; snout rounded, overhanging; simple cirrus over front nostril and 1-11 cirri over eye; cirrus on nape, if present, a slender filament; no fleshy crest on head; many movable teeth on each jaw; teeth on front of roof of mouth; lower surface of top lip wrinkled at sides; gill openings broad, forming a fold across throat; dorsal fin with deep notch between spiny and soft parts, XIII spines, but the last one tiny and hard to see, 13-16; anal II, 16 (15-17); fin rays unbranched, except on tail fin; lateral line is a short arch over pectoral; no scales.

Grey green, body with ~5 double dark bars; numerous pearly blue spots on upper half of body; head with small dark spots at rear, thin dark bars on lips.

Reaches 10 cm.

Rocky intertidal areas in surgy habitats.

Depth range: 0-8 m.

Bermuda to the S Caribbean and to Brazil.

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Salinity

Marine
Marine Only

Inshore/Offshore

Inshore
Inshore Only

Water Column Position

Bottom

Habitat

Reef only
Rocks
Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)

FishBase Habitat

Reef Associated

Feeding Group

Data
Omnivore

Diet

Data
Benthic microalgae
Mobile benthic worms

Egg Type

Benthic
Data
Pelagic larva

Global Endemism

All species
Greater Caribbean non-endemic
West Atlantic Endemic

Regional Endemism

Extends South of GC
Also in Brazil
Continent
Continent + Island (s)
GC endemic
Island (s)
All species

Residency

Resident

Climate Zone

Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)

IUCN Red List

Least concern
Listed

CITES

Not listed

Length Max

10

Depth Range Min

0

Depth Range Max

8

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Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system: Species Data Report

Fri 01st Sep, 2023 07:00 am

Species - Entomacrodus nigricans

Habitat

Salinity

Marine

Marine Only

Inshore/Offshore

Inshore

Inshore Only

Water Column Position

Bottom

Habitat

Reef only

Rocks

Reef (rock/coral/oyster)

Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)

FishBase Habitat

Reef Associated

Feeding

Feeding Group

Data

Omnivore

Diet

Data

Benthic microalgae

Mobile benthic worms

Reproduction

Egg Type

Benthic

Data

Pelagic larva

Zoogeography

Global Endemism

All species

Greater Caribbean non-endemic

West Atlantic Endemic

Regional Endemism

Extends South of GC

Also in Brazil

Continent

Continent + Island (s)

GC endemic

Island (s)

All species

Residency

Resident

Climate Zone

Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)

Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)

Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)

Conservation status

IUCN Red List

Least concern

Listed

CITES

Not listed

Size

Length Max

10

Depth

Depth Range Min

0

Depth Range Max

8

Range

Note: range polygons may be inaccurate for species known only from a few, widely scattered sites

Based on paint data

Latitude Limit N

Latitude Limit S

Longitude Limit W

Longitude Limit E

Latitudinal Range (N limit – S limit)

0

Longitudinal Range (W limit – E limit)

0

Range Midpoint (lat/long)

0, 0

Range Polygon Area: Km²

0 sq km

Range Polygon Centroid (lat/long)

-1, -1

Based on point data

Sampling-Point Count :

543

Range Polygon Area: Km²:

9,922,022 sq km

Range Polygon Centroid (lat/long):

20.7217,-78.3542

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520	25.8039	-77.8917
521	25.828	-77.9104
522	26.2801	-77.0317
523	26.3914	-80.0656
524	26.5	-77
525	26.5028	-78.649
526	26.5536	-78.3215
527	26.603	-78.4408
528	26.6167	-77
529	27.446	-80.2
530	27.45	-80.31
531	27.45	-80.28
532	27.4624	-80.244
533	27.5	-80
534	28.556	-80.762
535	32.228	-64.865
536	32.23	-64.87
537	32.2333	-64.85
538	32.242	-64.833
539	32.2484	-64.8341
540	32.2836	-64.7649
541	32.2905	-64.7568
542	32.2933	-64.8725
543	32.295	-64.748