Species: Hypsoblennius striatus, Striated blenny
no canines
Hypsoblennius striatus (Steindachner, 1876)
Striated blenny
Moderately elongate; short robust head, steep front profile; nostril with slender cirrus; a branched cirrus above eye, relatively long and slender; 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 origin forwards, over preopercle, XII, 16, no notch between the spiny and soft parts; anal rays II, 17-18.
Mottled olive on back with 5-6 short, broad dark bars below base of dorsal fin, lower half pale, with many narrow vertical black lines; a large, dark brown to blackish blotch behind eye, two dark bars under eye; a dark blotch at front of dorsal fin.
Size: attains 8 cm.
Inhabits shallow reefs and tide pools.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Nicaragua to Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Freshwater
- 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
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Freshwater
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Omnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Benthic microalgae
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No 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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- Panamic province endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- Continental TEP endemic
- TEP endemic
- All species
- 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
- Near threatened
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 8
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
