Yellowface Pikeblenny
Chaenopsis limbaughi
Also known as: Chaenopsid Blenny
- Chaenopsid Blenny
Overview
Found in colonies, with their heads poking out of a hole, (one to a hole) in clear waters, over coral, rubble, and sandy areas.
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.
How to identify
- Pattern
- mottled
- Fins & Tail
- flagfin
- Head & Mouth
- yellow face
- Behaviour
- burrowinghead showing
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Western Central Atlantic, Caribbean
- Country only · 2
Found in colonies, with their heads poking out of a hole, (one to a hole) in clear waters, over coral, rubble, and sandy areas.
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