Species: Labrisomus socorroensis, Misspelled blenny, Socorro blenny
fins: irregular bars
Labrisomus socorroensis Hubbs, 1953
Misspelled blenny, Socorro blenny
Body robust; head broad, snout blunt; eye large; nostrils with cirri; a branched cirrus over each eye; large bunch of heavily branched cirri on each side of nape; eye & nape cirri long (> 1/2 length of opercle): mouth large, slightly oblique, top rear jawbone exposed, not in a sheath; roof of mouth with no teeth on sides but a row of large teeth at front; dorsal fin XVII, front spines not long, 11, notched between spines and rays; anal rays II, 18; pectoral rays 14(13-15); 3 pelvic soft rays; 67-68 lateral line scales; head scaleless, except for a large patch of scales on cheek and entire top edge of gill cover scaly, inner 1/3 of tail & pectoral fins scaly, patch of scales on membrane between each dorsal & anal ray; in lateral line at rear each scale covers the front pore of the scale behind it.
Head spotted above, mottled below, with faint double bar from eye to corner of preopercle; body with 4 distinct dark bars, with 5 less distinct bars between, before & after them; dorsal fin with ocellus between 2nd & 3rd spines, spines behind with extensions of body bars, soft fin with rows of spots angled down and back; anal with same pattern as soft dorsal; tail with cross-hatched pattern of spots; pectoral & pelvics dusky, with dark bar on pectoral base; male: body, head & fins uniformly brick red.
Size: 13 cm.
Habitat: shallow and rocky.
Depth: 1-10 m?
The Revillagigedo Islands.
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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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- Island (s) only
- All species
- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Revillagigedo Islands endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Vulnerable
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 13
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 10
