Species: Hypsoblennius sordidus, Bull blenny
Hypsoblennius sordidus (Bennett, 1828)
Bull blenny
Moderately elongate; short robust head, with very steep front profile; eye cirrus simple or with up to 6 side branches; a short cirrus at nostril, none 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, 16-18, with a distinct notch between the spiny and soft parts, soft part higher; anal fin II, 18-20; lateral line ends under last dorsal rays.
Pale tan; head with small dark spots on snout and top of mouth, spots sometimes also on top of head, operculum and lower part of mouth; lower head with several orange bars; behind eye with two orange dashes above and below a dark spot; body and tail base with ~ 6 irregular dark bars, the last 2 bars blackish, with a white bar between them; dorsal fin with dark body bars extending onto its base as red blotches, front of dorsal with a black blotch, bordered at rear by white; rest of fin mottled red, brown and white.
Reaches 11.6 cm.
Habitat: lives on rocky reefs.
Depth range 1-10 m?
Caleta de Cruz, Peru, to Chile.
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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 (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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- No Data
- Omnivore
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Benthic macroalgae/seagrasses
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- TEP non-endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- All species
- Continent only
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Peruvian province, primarily
- Continent
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- 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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- 11.6
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 10
