Species: Hypsoblennius brevipinnis, Barnaclebill blenny
Hypsoblennius brevipinnis (Günther, 1861)
Barnaclebill blenny
Moderately elongate; short robust head, with very steep front profile; a 4-branched cirrus over eye, no cirri at nostrils or on nape; teeth with blunt flattened tips, in single rows, not movable, no canines on either jaw; gill openings restricted to sides of body by fusion of gill cover membranes to throat; dorsal fin X-XII, 15-16, with a slight notch between the spiny and soft parts; fin rays unbranched, except on tail fin; lateral line ends under end of spiny dorsal fin; no scales.
Upper sides dark brown with a horizontal rows of circular tan patches (often with dark brown centers) just below base of dorsal fin and second row of smaller patches or spots just below; lower sides whitish to yellow; head with small brown spots and a prominent tan oblique band behind eye, with a dark-edged whitish stripe on its upper and lower margin.
Size: grows to 7 cm.
Lives in empty barnacle shells, usually in 1-3 m.
Depth: 1-10 m.
Central Baja and the Central Gulf of California to Peru, including Galapagos, Cocos and Malpelo Islands.
Has been collected in the locks at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Freshwater
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Flotsam
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Freshwater
- Rocks
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Sessile worms
- Soft corals/hydroids
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Sponges/seasquirts/bryozoa
- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic worms
- Sessile crustacea
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Island (s)
- 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)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- 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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- 10
