Species: Malacoctenus ebisui, Fishgod blenny
female: yellowish, diffuse bars, many white dots
LL 52-58
scales before D, not on pectoral base
Malacoctenus ebisui Springer, 1959
Fishgod blenny
Head slender, snout pointed, < eye; underside of head between front of opercular flaps with 1-2 pores; a pair of heavily branched nape cirri, space between those 1.9-2.1 times width of a cirrus base;a branched cirrus over eye; upper part of rear end of top jaw covered by bone under eye; no small teeth behind outer row of large teeth on upper jaw; no teeth on sides of roof of mouth; gill rakers 11-13; dorsal fin XX, 11, (XIX-XXI, 10-12), 1st spine short, 10% SL or less,notch between spines and rays; anal II, 20 (18-21); pectoral 14; 3 pelvic soft rays, length of shortest ray 47-62% longest ray; ; 52-58 lateral line scales; belly scales smaller than flank scales; scales present in front of dorsal fin, also on breast of males; scales absent from prepectoral region.
Male brown to reddish brown on back with 2-3 large black patches posteriorly, belly greenish, with tiny white spots; female brownish above, yellowish below, with several diffuse brownish bars across side, with many white spots.
Size: attains 6.5 cm.
Habitat: rocky and rubble bottoms.
Depth: 1-18 m.
The lower half of Baja, Mazatlan to Ecuador.
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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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Sessile molluscs
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- Continent only
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 6.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 18
