Species: Hypsoblennius hentz, Feather blenny
head & nape dense spots
large C shaped blotch behind & below eye
Hypsoblennius hentz (Lesueur, 1825)
Feather blenny
Moderately elongate; short robust head, with very steep front profile; cirrus over eye short and branched in female, long and straplike with fringes in male; no cirri on nape; nostrils with a short cirrus; top lip not free at front, joined to snout, 4 pores on each side of chin; teeth with blunt flattened tips, in single rows, not movable, no canines on either jaw; gill openings restricted to sides of body by fusion of gill cover membranes to throat; dorsal fin XI-XIII (spines strong), 13-16, with a slight notch between the spiny and soft parts; pelvic fins I, 3; fin rays unbranched, except on tail fin; lateral line ends under end of spiny dorsal fin; no scales.
Brown above, paler below; body with many irregular dark brown spots that often form irregular bars; head and nape with dense dark spots, and 2-3 V shaped bars on lower part; a large dark C shaped blotch behind and below eye; a dark spot at front of dorsal fin, in middle of fin, centered on spine II, that with a blue center in male.
Reaches 12 cm.
Lives in seagrass flats.
Depth range: 0-10 m.
Nova Scotia to Caribbean Mexico.
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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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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Omnivore
- Corallivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Benthic microalgae
- Soft corals/hydroids
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Continent
- Extends North of GC
- All species..
- GC non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Temperate (>35N)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 12
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 10
