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Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 20 - 22; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 16; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 21 - 25.

Common Names

  • Spinyhead blenny , English , Bahamas
  • Spinyhead Blenny , English , Cuba
  • Spinyhead blenny , English , Mexico
  • Spinyhead blenny , English , Puerto Rico
  • Spinyhead blenny , English , USA
  • Spinyhead blenny , English , Global
  • 棘头棘胎鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 棘頭棘胎鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Blénido espinoso , Spanish , Venezuela
  • Sapito espinoso , Spanish , Cuba
  • Tubícola cabeza espinosa , Spanish , Mexico

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Blenniiformes

    Family: Chaenopsidae

    Genus: Acanthemblemaria

    Species: Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Western Central Atlantic: Bahamas and Florida, USA to Curaçao (Ref. 5521). Caribbean, including Antilles (Ref. 26938).

    • Biology

    Inhabits small patch reefs surrounded by white sand (Ref. 5521). Observed primarily on dead surfaces of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), but significantly more males than females were found on live coral surfaces. Males occurred twice as frequently as females in the vacated constructed tubes of serpulid worms or vermetid mollusks that provided greater surface for egg deposition (Ref. 47880). Feed mainly on planktonic calanoid copepods (Ref. 94105).

    Habitat

    associated