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Yellowface Pike blenny

Chaenopsis limbaughi

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20.8481, -86.8759

Field Notes

Description:

Photo take at -45 ft in a sand bed next to a Coral reef this is a very small fish about 7 cm long has a grate sailfin very rare to see usually Pike fish don´t go outside the hole where inhabitant. Light brown with pale dots and a narrow mid-lateral brown stripe, sometimes broken into blotches; faint bars on body; small black spot at front of dorsal fin; mature males with more yellow on head, gill membranes black; branchiostegal rays blue.

Habitat:

Found in sand areas usually in small holes in the sand or some sand tubes
from Florida all the Caribbean sea to Venezuela.

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Comments (4)

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Very interesting! You should consider adding this to the animal architecture mission too - I'm not sure if they have any fish architecture in the mission!

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