Species: Protemblemaria perla, Fringed tube-blenny
eye: 2 large branched cirri
Protemblemaria perla Hastings, 2001
Fringed tube-blenny
Body elongate; head rounded, blunt, its top not spiny; snout with a fleshy ridge, but no cirrus in middle; 2 bushy, deeply branched cirri over each eye; rear nostril with a long cirrus; a U shaped crest with irregular fleshy skin flaps on nape; a pair of papillae on the nape; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XX, 18, little or no notch between spiny and soft parts; anal rays II, 25-26; pectoral rays 14.
Head & body grey, mottled; cheek with a dark blotch, 2 more on upper operculum; a series of dark-centered brown bars along side & series of dark saddles along dorsal fin base; dorsal fin with black spot between 2nd & 3rd spines, rust colored spots on rest of spiny part of fin and rust colored bars on outer part of soft part of fin, with a series of pale bars extending across entire spinous part of fin, and outer half of soft part of fin; tail and anal fins pale.
Size: 5 cm.
Habitat: rocky coast.
Depth: 5-15 m.
Known only from the Pearl Islands in Panama Bay.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Barnacles & worm tubes
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- 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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- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- 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
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 15
