Species: Chaenopsis species A, Panamic pike-blenny
no notch behind head
tongue short
Chaenopsis species A
Panamic pike-blenny
Body very elongate; head long; no cirri on head; snout strongly pointed, projecting, short (23% of head length), narrow; long mouth, usually reaching far behind eye, tip of lower jaw projecting; front of roof of mouth with small teeth; tongue short, tip not extending beyond teeth on sides of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XVII, 34-36, front half of fin moderately elevated in adult males; anal rays II, 37; pectoral rays 13; tail fin rounded, joined to dorsal and anal fins.
Body translucent with irregular blotches along midflank; usually a dark spot immediately behind eye; branchiostegal membranes black; female and juvenile with large ocellus on front of dorsal fin; male: front of dorsal fin grayish to blackish.
Size: 11 cm.
Habitat: rubble habitats near reefs.
Depth: 5-30 m?
Costa Rica to Colombia.
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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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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Pelagic fish eggs
- No Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Continental TEP endemic
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Panamic province 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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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 11
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
