Species: Acanthemblemaria hancocki, Hancock's barnacle-blenny, Panamic barnacle-blenny
eye cirrus simple
iris, lips & chin red
D: front red
Acanthemblemaria hancocki Myers & Reid, 1936
Panamic barnacle-blenny, Hancock's barnacle-blenny
Body elongate; short blunt head; head spines short, in a single triangular patch on frontals; cirri on nostrils, over eyes (1 pair, with or without 1 branch), but not on nape; 2 rows of well-developed teeth on side of roof of mouth; dorsal XXIII-XXIV, 12-14; anal II, 23-25; pectoral 12-13.
Pale tan, nearly translucent with midlateral row of horizontally elongate dark brown blotches and horizontal row of small dark brown spots above and below midlateral row; iris, lips and chin red; a large dark brown spot on upper part of gill cover; outer edge of front of dorsal red, sometimes a black spot at front of dorsal.
Size: to 4.5 cm.
Inhabits empty barnacles and worm and mollusc tubes on rocky reefs.
Depth: 0-5 m.
El Salvador to Ecuador.
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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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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef only
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- Continental TEP 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 4.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
