Species: Exerpes asper, Sargassum blenny
snout long, pointed
D2 - 2 ocelli
Exerpes asper (Jenkins & Evermann, 1889)
Sargassum blenny
Elongate, compressed; snout long, pointed, upper profile straight; no cirri on head; lower jaw projecting; teeth in jaws biserial with larger outer series; roof of mouth with teeth on center but not sides; operculum with a distinct spiny projection; dorsal fin III- IV + XXIV- XXV, 0-2, front 3-4 spines in a high finlet well separated before rest of fin; anal rays II, 17-20; lateral-line scales about 40.
Green with midlateral white stripe from snout to caudal fin base (may be broken into series of spots); a pair of ocellated dark spots on rear half of dorsal fin.
Maximum length, 6.5 cm.
Habitat: common among sargassum weed or eelgrass.
Depth: 1-10 m.
Central Baja and most of the Gulf of California.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Soft corals/hydroids
- 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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- Continental TEP endemic
- Cortez province endemic
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- All species
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- 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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- 10
