Species: Stathmonotus culebrai, Panamanic worm-blenny
cirri: nostril only
Stathmonotus culebrai Seale, 1940
Panamanic worm-blenny
Elongate, worm-like body; short, bluntly pointed head with large oblique mouth; rear edge of preopercle covered with skin; cirrus on front nostril, none over eye or on nape; dorsal fin XXXIX-XXXXII, 0; anal rays II, 20-23; pectoral rays 7-10.
Color highly variable, entirely green, yellowish with leopard-like spotting, or black with dorsal fin and top of head white.
Size: attains 5 cm.
A cryptic species found among weed on rocky reefs, usually not seen unless flushed out with chemical ichthyocides.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Costa Rica to Ecuador; strays at Cocos Is.
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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
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- All species
- Continent only
- Continent + Island (s)
- 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
