Species: Coralliozetus boehlkei, Barcheek tube-blenny, Bohlke's tube-blenny

D notched
side head - white bars

Coralliozetus boehlkei Stephens, 1963
Barcheek tube-blenny, Bohlke's tube-blenny
Elongate, relatively long; head short, blunt, not spiny on top; simple cirri at nostrils; 1 pair of short (<½ eye diameter) unbranched eye cirri; no cirri on nape; notch at middle of top lip; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XIX, 10-12, notch between spines and rays, fin low at front in both sexes; anal rays II, 19-21; pectoral rays 13-14.
Male: dark brown body and head; body with rows of white spots along upper back and along mid-flank; cheek and lower operculum with several oblique alternating white and black bars; dorsal fin mottled, with white front; female: light body & head; body with many thin internal dark bars; dorsal fin clear; lower head with dark bars; ~ 3 narrow white oblique bars on cheek.
Size: 3.1 cm.
Habitat: coastal rocky areas, especially on boulders.
Depth: 1-5 m.
The SE corner of the Gulf of California to Costa Rica and Cocos.

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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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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- All species
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.1
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 5