Species: Parahypsos piersoni, Slender blenny
Parahypsos piersoni (Gilbert & Starks, 1904)
Slender blenny
Body slender; head blunt, forehead profile very steep; nostril with a short, 2-branched cirrus; 1 pair short, heavily branched cirri above eyes; groove along side of head between nape and eye; jaw teeth incisor-like, in 1 row, immovable, no canine teeth; gill openings restricted to sides of body, gill membranes fused to throat; dorsal with VIII-IX, 15-16, without notch between spiny & soft parts; anal II, 24; pelvic I, 3; lateral line straight, short, ends above origin of anal fin.
Body light, with dark mottling, blotches & series short dark saddles along base of dorsal; dark spots along body above anal fin; a red-edged black spot over 1st 3 dorsal fin spines; anal with dark band along outer half.
Size: 3 cm.
Habitat: rocky shores.
Depth: 0-10 m?
El Salvador to Peru.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Benthic microalgae
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- 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
- TEP endemic
- Continent only
- Continent
- All species
- Continental 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 10
