Species: Ekemblemaria myersi, Reef-sand tube-blenny
behind eyes: no ridges
nape pores = slits
Ekemblemaria myersi Stephens, 1963
Reef-sand tube-blenny
Elongate, head short, blunt; bones on snout and under eyes pitted & rough, forehead very rough, but without spines or bony ridges; no longitudinal bony ridges on snout; 1 palm-like cirrus over eye; pores around eye & on nape round; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal XIX-XXI, 19-21, without notch between spiny and soft parts; pelvic fins shorter than pectorals; anal II, 24-27; pectoral 13-14 rays.
Varies from tan to dark brown; body with 10-12 broad darker brown bars with narrower pale interspacies; a large brown ocellated spot on gill cover; dorsal fin colored like body, with oblique pale lines and lines of spots; distal portions of soft dorsal, caudal, and posterior part of anal fin clear; male with dark lower jaw, female with bars on lower jaw.
Size: reaches 7 cm.
Inhabits mollusc tubes on rocky outcrops in sand-weed areas.
Depth: 1-5 m.
The tip of Baja and the central Gulf of California to Ecuador; vagrants at Cocos Is.
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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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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- 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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- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- TEP endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- 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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- 7
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
