Species: Stathmonotus sinuscalifornici, California worm-blenny, Cortez worm-blenny, Gulf worm-blenny
cirri: eye only
Stathmonotus sinuscalifornici (Chabanaud, 1942)
Gulf worm-blenny, Cortez worm-blenny, California worm-blenny
Elongate, worm-like body; short, bluntly pointed head with large oblique mouth; head swollen and mouth longer in males; rear edge of preopercle covered with skin; no cirrus on front nostril, flaplike cirrus over eye, no cirri on nape; dorsal fin XXXX-XXXXVI, 0; anal rays II, 22-26; pectoral rays 7-9.
Color highly variable, white, green, yellow, brown, or black, usually with series of white bars on dorsal fin; green or yellow variety often with one or more longitudinal rows of black spots on side.
Maximum size, 6.5 cm.
Habitat: occurs in weedy areas along rocky shores.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Southern Baja to the central 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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- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Cortez province endemic
- Continent
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- 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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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
