Species: Labrisomus striatus, Green blenny

Labrisomus striatus Hubbs, 1953

Green 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; nape cirri short (~`2/3 length of opercle); mouth large, slightly oblique, top rear jawbone exposed, not in a sheath; no enlarged canine behind patch of small teeth on each side of upper and lower jaw; dorsal fin XVIII, 10, membranes between anterior dorsal spines deeply incised; first dorsal spine short, less than width of eye diameter, fin notched between spines and rays; anal rays II, 17; pectoral rays 13; 3 pelvic soft rays; 42-44 lateral line scales; head scaleless, except a few scales present on upper margin of gill cover and on upper cheek.

Female: body light brownish with series of thin dark stripes between scale rows; large red-brown spots scattered on sides; head paler, with pair of brown bars obliquely down and back from eye, male: body greenish, with similar pattern of lines and bars as in female.