Blackfin glass blenny

Emblemariopsis leptocirris

Elongated Blenny from the Caribbean Sea

Emblemariopsis leptocirris is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs in the western central Atlantic ocean.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Blennies and Allies
Family: Chaenopsidae
Genus: Emblemariopsis
Maximum length: 2.2 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Central Caribbean: along the Central American coast from Cozumel (Yucatan, Mexico) south to Belize, Utila, and Roatan to Panama; in the western Caribbean, on the islands of the Corn Islands of Nicaragua and Cayman Islands and across to the northern Antilles (i.e. Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands and Nevis and St. Kitts, stopping before Dominica). Apparently absent from the southern Caribbean east of Panama (i.e. Colombia, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Venezuela, Trinidad, and the Windward (southern) Lesser Antilles (Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Grenada, and Tobago), and to the north, absent from the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and the Bahamas.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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