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Bony fish

Secretary Benny

Acanthemblemaria maria

Also known as: Chaenopsid Blenny, - Chaenopsid Blenny

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2025
Adult
@JolineCuracao · Curaçao, Curaçao · June 20221 / 2
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Overview

Found with their head protruding from holes in the coral of limestone slopes usually dotted with small brain corals, stinging coral, sea fans, whips, and sea urchins
Widespread - Western Central Atlantic, Caribbean

Chaenopsid Blennies also called tube blennies because they often make their nests in abandoned worm holes and clams especially at breeding time. These blennies lack scales and have a high front Dorsal Fin.

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How to identify

Behaviour
head showing

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Central Atlantic, Caribbean
  • Exact location · 1
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Found with their head protruding from holes in the coral of limestone slopes usually dotted with small brain corals, stinging coral, sea fans, whips, and sea urchins

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderBlenniiformes
    5. familyChaenopsidae
    6. genusAcanthemblemaria
    7. speciesAcanthemblemaria maria Böhlke, 1961

    SourcesWoRMSFishBase

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    More in the family

    Pike-Tube-Flagblennies (Chaenopsidae)