Species: Hypsoblennius maculipinna, Fin-spot blenny

dark bar behind eye
back - dark + network pale spots

Hypsoblennius maculipinna (Regan, 1903)
Fin-spot blenny
Moderately elongate; short robust head, somewhat pointed, with convex upper profile; rear nostril with a short, pointed cirrus; a short (less than eye diameter) cirrus with several short branches over eye; 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 XII, 14 a slight notch between the spiny and soft parts; anal rays II, 16; last rays of dorsal and anal fins joined by membranes to base of tail fin.
Grey brown; head with an irregular oblique bar behind eye, connected to a blotch on cheek; upper body dark with a network of pale round blotches; midflank with a row of irregular spots or blotches; dorsal fin with a dark stripe covering its outer half along the first 3-4 spines.
Size reaches at least 6.2 cm.
Depth: 0-2 m.
Habitat: mud and sand bottoms in brackish and freshwater of coastal streams and estuaries
Costa Rica to Ecuador.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Non Marine
- Freshwater
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Freshwater
- Estuary
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- Sand & gravel
- Mangrove
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Omnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- 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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- 6.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 2