Southern smoothhead glass blenny

Emblemariopsis bottomei

Territorial male black head

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Central America and the Caribbean
Europe
South America
Small
Tropical fish

Southern smoothhead glass blenny is a marine fish of Western Central Atlantic. The species occupies reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 3 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Blennies and Allies
Family: Chaenopsidae
Genus: Emblemariopsis
Maximum length: 3 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: Western Central Atlantic: Caribbean Sea, from the Netherlands Antilles, Bonaire, and Curaçao); Venezuela; with a disjunct range in the Windward Lesser Antilles ending in Dominica, i.e. Tobago, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, and Dominica.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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