Species: Cirriemblemaria lucasana, Plume tube-blenny
Cirriemblemaria lucasana (Stephens, 1963)
Plume tube-blenny
Head rounded, blunt; snout with one central cirrus; 2 deeply branched cirri above each eye, front cirrus of male at least twice as long as eye width, female with shorter cirri; nape with two rows of cirri; dorsal rays XXI-XXII, 15-16, a shallow notch between spiny and soft parts of dorsal fin; anal rays II, 25-27; pectoral rays 14.
Translucent yellowish or pinkish to red; a pair of thin oblique brown bands bordering a whitish area on cheek; cirri yellowish to white; ~ 9 brown saddle-like markings below base of dorsal fin; belly white, with a dark central bar; white dashes along vertebral column.
Size: attains 4 cm.
Inhabits empty mollusc tubes on rocky reefs.
Depth: 5-30 m.
Southern Baja and the lower 2/3 of the Gulf of California to southern Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- 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 only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continental TEP endemic
- TEP endemic
- Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic
- Continent
- 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)
- 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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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
