Species: Hypsoblennius proteus, Socorro blenny, Variable blenny

iris orange

Hypsoblennius proteus (Krejsa, 1960)
Socorro blenny, Variable blenny
Moderately elongate; short robust head, steep front profile; nostril with slender cirrus; 2 pairs long slender cirri above eyes; no cirri on nape; teeth with blunt flattened tips, in single rows, not movable, no rear canines on either jaw; gill openings restricted to sides of body by fusion of gill cover membranes to throat; dorsal fin XI-XII, 12-13, shallow notch between the spiny and soft parts; anal rays II, 14-15.
Head olive to flesh; a blue-dotted, blue-white bordered orange bar angles down & back from eye; blue-black blotch to half-moon behind eye; orange bars composed of dense dots radiate from eye; eye cirri orange; iris orange, sometimes with inner blue-white ring; body pale olive to flesh above, flesh with black peppering on belly; 5 dark red-brown to blackish bars on upper ½ of body and tail base; with irregular blotches in between; a series of white lines and spots along the midflank; pectoral with blue-white bar angled across base, clear membranes, brown to blackish rays; dorsal light olive-green, dusted with black, more densely on spiny part; anal olive, sometimes with white margin; tail with olive base fading to clear margin.
Size: 3.8 cm.
Habitat: rocky shores.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Revillagigedos Islands.

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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Revillagigedo Islands endemic
- TEP endemic
- Island (s)
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- Island (s) only
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Vulnerable
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5