Species: Coralliozetus micropes, Scarlet-fin tube-blenny, Zebraface tube-blenny
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Coralliozetus micropes (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1938)
Zebraface tube-blenny, Scarlet-fin tube-blenny
Elongate, slender; head short, blunt, not spiny on top; simple cirri at nostrils; cirrus above eye longer than eye diameter in males, about half eye diameter in females; no cirri on nape; notch at middle of top lip; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XIX-XXI, 11-13, 1st spine with skin-flap at its base, notch between spines and rays, fin tall and sail-like at front in male, uniformly low in female; anal rays II, 21-24; pectoral rays 12-14.
Male overall dark brown with yellowish caudal fin, several narrow diagonal white lines across cheek and gill cover; several rows of white spots on head and front half of body; females yellowish white, nearly translucent, with white and brown flecks on side and several brown bars on lower half of head; a dark blotch at front of dorsal fin.
Size: grows to 4 cm.
Inhabits mollusc tubes on rocky reefs.
Depth: 1-5 m.
Southern Baja California and the Gulf of California.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Rocks
- Reef only
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic worms
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- Cortez province endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 4
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
