Species: Chaenopsis schmitti, Galapagos pike-blenny, Yellow-mouth pike-blenny
tongue short
Chaenopsis schmitti Böhlke, 1957
Galapagos pike-blenny, Yellow-mouth pike-blenny
Body very elongate; head long; no cirri on head; snout long & strongly pointed; long mouth, usually reaching far behind eye, tip of lower jaw projecting; first 3 mandibular pores (counting from front of jaw) equally spaced; at least a few teeth present on front roof of mouth; tip of tongue not extending forward as far as tooth patches on side roof of mouth; dorsal fin XVIII-XX, 33-38, front half of fin moderately tall and sail-like in adult males; anal rays II, 34-36; pectoral rays 12-13; tail fin rounded, joined to dorsal and anal fins.
Light olive to whitish with about 10 narrow greenish bars on side; branchiostegal membrane black; males: head and anterior part of dorsal fin often brownish to black with orange bars; females with black ocellated spot at front of dorsal fin.
Size: reaches 8 cm.
Inhabits worm tubes on sand-rubble bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m.
The Galapagos Islands.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Planktivore
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- Pelagic fish eggs
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Galapagos Islands endemic
- All species
- Island (s)
- Island (s) only
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- 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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- Vulnerable
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 8
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
