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Acanthemblemaria aspera (Longley, 1927)

Common Names

  • Roughhead blenny , English , Bahamas
  • Roughhead Blenny , English , Cuba
  • Roughhead blenny , English , Puerto Rico
  • Roughhead blenny , English , USA
  • Roughhead blenny , English , Global
  • 粗头棘胎鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 粗頭棘胎鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Blenniiformes

    Family: Chaenopsidae

    Genus: Acanthemblemaria

    Species: Acanthemblemaria aspera (Longley, 1927)

    Climate Zone

  • Subtropical

    • Location

  • Western Atlantic: southeastern Florida (USA), Bahamas, and Yucatan, Mexico to the Greater Antilles and Panama. Antilles and western Caribbean (Ref. 26938).

    • Biology

    Almost always found in holes of corals. Feed on amphipods and copepods (Ref. 5521). Main diet of benthic harpacticoid copepods (Ref. 94105). Oviparous (Ref. 56066). Eggs are attached to the walls of the parent's shelter and are brooded by the male parent (Ref. 56066).

    Habitat

    associated

    Conservation Status

    Least Concern

    Threat to Humans

    Harmless