Species: Chaenopsis coheni, Cohen's pike-blenny, Cortez pike-blenny
snout long
eye small
operculum edge - dark above, spots below
A margin dark
tongue short
Chaenopsis coheni Böhlke, 1957
Cortez pike-blenny, Cohen's pike-blenny
Body very elongate; head long; no cirri on head; snout relatively long (24-27% of head length), broad, rounded; rear nostrils ~ midway between front nostrils & eye; long mouth, usually reaching far behind eye, tip of lower jaw projecting; tongue short, tip not extending forward past teeth on sides of roof of mouth; no teeth at front of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XVIII-XX, 28-30, front half of fin a little elevated in adult males; anal rays II, 32-33; pectoral rays 13; tail fin rounded, joined to dorsal and anal fins.
(Preserved fish) Body translucent with series of 8-9 irregular blotches along mid-flank; head covered with dark dots, larger below; opercular membrane dark above, spotted below; dorsal and anal fins with dark margins; no ocellus on dorsal fin.
Size: 7.2 cm.
Habitat: rubble habitats near reefs.
Depth: 1-40 m.
The western Gulf of California and near Puerto Vallarta on the mainland.
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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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Planktivore
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Bony fishes
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic
- Continent
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 7.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 40
