Species: Protemblemaria bicirrus, Wart-head tube-blenny
eye: 2 deeply branched cirri
Protemblemaria bicirrus (Hildebrand, 1946)
Wart-head tube-blenny
Body elongate; head rounded, blunt, its top not spiny; snout with a fleshy ridge, but no cirrus in middle; 2 bushy, deeply branched cirri over each eye; top of head covered with fleshy warts; a pair of fleshy ridges between eyes; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XX-XXII, 14-16, little or no notch between spiny and soft parts; anal rays II, 23-25; pectoral rays 14.
Body color variable, from nearly whitish translucent to grey to pale brown or yellowish orange; head and body with numerous small white spots; usually 8-10 brownish saddles below base of dorsal fin and sometimes a corresponding midlateral row of brownish blotches; a small dark, ocellated spot at front of dorsal fin.
Size: to 4.5 cm.
Inhabits empty barnacles and mollusc tubes on rocky reefs.
Depth: 5-20 m.
Southern Baja and the Gulf of California to Peru.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 4.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
