Species: Mccoskerichthys sandae, Tufted tube-blenny
very elongate
eye cirri: 5 pairs, very bushy
eye cirri: 5 pairs, very bushy
head green
eye black
body reddish
eye black
body reddish
Mccoskerichthys sandae Rosenblatt & Stephens, 1978
Tufted tube-blenny
Body extremely elongate, slender, (depth at dorsal origin 8-10% of SL); snout blunt; outer row of teeth on both jaws with flattened tips; a dense bushy mass of 5 pairs of branched cirri over and between eyes; preopercle border not skin covered; dorsal fin low, with long base, XVII-XX, 31-34; anal rays II, 32-36 (usually 34 or 35); pectoral rays 12-14 (usually 13).
Head olive green; eye black; body reddish brown, with olive blotches; dorsal, anal and tail fins with reddish rays.
Size: to 8 cm.
Inhabits mollusc and worm tubes on near-vertical rock faces.
Depth: 1-30 m.
Costa Rica and western Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continental TEP endemic
- All species
- Continent
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Near threatened
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 8
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
