Genus: Coralliozetus, Tube-Blennies

eye cirri: 1, simple
D 28-33 elements

upper lips: notch at center front
CORALLIOZETUS
TUBE-BLENNIES
Elongate; head short, blunt, not spiny on top; simple cirri at nostrils; 1-2 unbranched cirri on each eye, none on nape; notch at middle of top lip; 1 row of teeth on each side of roof of mouth; dorsal fin XVII-XXI, 10-13, notch between spines and rays, fin often higher at front in male; pectoral ~13; pelvics I (internal), 2-3, inserted before pectoral base; all fin rays unbranched; no lateral line; no scales; sexes strongly different in color.
A neotropical genus with 6 species; 5 endemics are present in the eastern Pacific.