Species: Xenomedea rhodopyga, Red-rump blenny
Xenomedea rhodopyga Rosenblatt & Taylor, 1971
Red-rump blenny
Elongate; pointed head with oblique mouth; short unbranched cirrus at nostril, over eye and on nape; teeth on front but not sides of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XX-XXIII, 8-11, notch between spines and rays; anal rays II, 18-22, first anal spine much shorter than 2nd in male; male with fleshy folds around genital papilla & front of anal fin base; female with ridge from anus along each side of anal fin base to level of 2nd soft ray; total (right and left) pectoral rays 24-28 (usually 26); lateral-line scales 39-45.
Color varies from plain pinkish to strongly marked with brown bars or squarish brown to red blotches, flecked with white; an oblique brown band with oblique white band immediately above rear corner of eye and another just below, with a dark bar below that; a small black spot at front of dorsal fin; a white bar on base of pectoral fin.
Maximum size, 6.5 cm.
Habitat: relatively common on rocky, weed-covered reefs from tide pools.
Depth: 1-33 m.
Western and central eastern Gulf of California.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Submerged vegetation
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Live birth
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Continent
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Cortez province endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- 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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- 33
