Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Blenniimorphae
Ordo: Blenniiformes
Subordo: Blennioidei
Familia: Chaenopsidae
Genus: Acanthemblemaria
Species (21): A. aspera – A. atrata – A. balanorum – A. betinensis – A. castroi – A. chaplini – A. crockeri – A. exilispinus – A. greenfieldi – A. hancocki – A. harpeza – A. hastingsi – A. johnsoni – A. macrospilus – A. mangognatha – A. maria – A. medusa – A. paula – A. rivasi – A. spinosa – A. stephensi
Name
Acanthemblemaria Metzelaar, 1919
Gender: feminine
Type species: Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919
Type by monotypy
References
Primary references
Metzelaar, J. 1919. Report on the fishes, collected by Dr. J. Boeke in the Dutch West Indies 1904–1905, with comparative notes on marine fishes of tropical West Africa. F. J. Belanfante, the Hague, p. 159.
Additional references
Lin, H.-C. & Galland, G.R. 2010. Molecular analysis of Acanthemblemaria macrospilus (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae) with description of a new species from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Zootaxa 2525: 51–62. Preview (PDF)
Stephens, J.S., Jr. 1963. A revised classification of the blennioid fishes of the American family Chaenopsidae. University of California Publications in Zoology 68, iv + 165 pp., 15 pls.
Links
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Acanthemblemaria species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Acanthemblemaria and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Etymology
Acanthemblemaria: Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass or high relief[1]
Description
Body elongated; head short and blunt; pointed or blunt spines on snout, below eye, sometimes on top of head; 2 rows of very well developed teeth on the roof of the mouth; 1 pair of branched or unbranched cirri over eyes; cirri over nostrils; usually with a notch between the spiny and soft parts of the dorsal fin
Species
The 21 recognized species in this genus are:[2]
Acanthemblemaria aspera (Longley, 1927) (roughhead blenny)
Acanthemblemaria atrata Hastings & D. R. Robertson, 1999 (Cocos barnacle blenny)
Acanthemblemaria balanorum Brock, 1940 (clubhead blenny)
Acanthemblemaria betinensis Smith-Vaniz & Palacio, 1974 (speckled blenny)
Acanthemblemaria castroi J. S. Stephens & Hobson, 1966 (Galapagos barnacle blenny)
Acanthemblemaria chaplini J. E. Böhlke, 1957 (papillose blenny)
Acanthemblemaria crockeri Beebe & Tee-Van, 1938 (browncheek blenny)
Acanthemblemaria exilispinus J. S. Stephens, 1963 (bluntspine blenny)
Acanthemblemaria greenfieldi Smith-Vaniz & Palacio, 1974 (false papillose blenny)
Acanthemblemaria hancocki G. S. Myers & Reid, 1936 (Hancock's blenny)
Acanthemblemaria harpeza J. T. Williams, 2002
Acanthemblemaria hastingsi H. C. Lin & Galland, 2010 (Cortez barnacle blenny)[3]
Acanthemblemaria johnsoni Almany & C. C. Baldwin, 1996
Acanthemblemaria macrospilus Brock, 1940 (barnacle blenny)
Acanthemblemaria mangognatha Hastings & D. R. Robertson, 1999 (Revillagigedo barnacle blenny)
Acanthemblemaria maria J. E. Böhlke] 1961 (secretary blenny)
Acanthemblemaria medusa Smith-Vaniz & Palacio, 1974 (Medusa blenny)
Acanthemblemaria paula G. D. Johnson & Brothers, 1989 (dwarf spinyhead blenny)
Acanthemblemaria rivasi J. S. Stephens, 1970 (spotjaw blenny)
Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919 (spinyhead blenny)
Acanthemblemaria stephensi Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1988 (Malpelo barnacle blenny)
Behavior and diet
Acanthemblemaria are mostly filter feeding fishes, they inhabit coral reefs, rocky reefs and abandoned worm and mollusc tubes.[4]
They feed mostly on passing benthic crustaceans, zooplankton, benthic worms,
References
"Acanthemblemaria aspera, Roughhead blenny : aquarium". www.fishbase.de. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Acanthemblemaria". FishBase. February 2013 version.
Lin, Hsiu-Chin; Grantly R. Galland (2010). "Molecular analysis of Acanthemblemaria macrospilus (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae) with description of a new species from the Gulf of California, Mexico" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2525: 51–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2525.1.3.
"Shorefishes - Homepage". biogeodb.stri.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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