Bluegold glass blenny

Emblemariopsis ruetzleri

Fish Reaching Two Centimeters in Mexican Waters

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

Emblemariopsis ruetzleri is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Belize, in the western central Atlantic ocean. The specific name honours Klaus Ruetzler, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Blennies and Allies
Family: Chaenopsidae
Genus: Emblemariopsis
Maximum length: 2 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: Western Central Atlantic: Belize, Honduras, south to Panama; on the islands of the western Caribbean, including San Andres and Cayman Islands; across to the northern Antilles: Mona Island, Puerto Rico, and St. Croix, St. Barthélemy, and Isla Aves, but 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); to the north, absent from the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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