Species: Tanyemblemaria alleni, Slender tube-blenny
eye cirrus: 1, flat
spines under eye
Tanyemblemaria alleni Hastings, 1992
Slender tube-blenny
Body very elongate, tapering at rear; snout pointed; mouth oblique; a raised ridge on bone above eye; widely separated nasal bones with prominent raised ridges and a single row of projecting bony knobs; strong spines on edge of bone below eye; no cirrus on anterior nostril; 1 flat unbranched cirrus over eye; preopercle margin with short spines and serrations; dorsal fin with long base, XXVII, 24, 1st 2 spines elongate; anal rays II, 38; pectoral rays 13.
Head and body pale grey-brown; a small orange blotch on cheek behind upper jaw; white spots or blotches on head, body and dorsal fin; opercle, pectoral-fin base, and basal portion of pectoral-fin rays each with a single large white blotch; entire length of body with alternating white and dark saddles.
Size: to at least 5.4 cm.
Habitat: sand/cobble bottoms.
Depth: 17 m on a sandy bottom.
Known only from a single specimen collected at Isla Rey, Islas Perlas, Panama.
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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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- 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
- Continent
- Continent only
- All species
- Panamic province endemic
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 5.4
- Depth Range Min
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- 17
- Depth Range Max
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- 17
