Species: Emblemaria walkeri, Elusive signal-blenny
Emblemaria walkeri Stephens, 1963
Elusive signal-blenny
Body elongate; head short and blunt; head without spines; 2 serrated longitudinal ridges on snout; males with bony flange below eye expanded, overlapping upper lip; 1 unbranched cirrus over eye that is often longer than eye; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XXI-XXII, 15-18, male with large, sail-like front of dorsal fin, 1st spine with 1 relatively large flag-like skin flap at front at base; dorsal fin low and even in female; anal rays II, 25-26; pectoral rays 13; pelvic fin longer than pectoral.
Males brown on head, dark reddish brown on body with faint large dark blotches along middle of side and whitish saddles below base of spinous dorsal fin, eye and cirri red; females reddish with whitish saddles below base of dorsal fin.
Size: grows to 6.5 cm.
Inhabits empty mollusc tubes on sand-rubble bottoms.
Depth: 5-20 m.
Western and central eastern Gulf of California.
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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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- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Data
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Cortez province endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 6.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
