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Diagnostic Description

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Snout V shaped when viewed from above. Head dark with blue gill membranes.
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 21; Dorsal soft rays (total): 34
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Biology

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Inhabits worm tubes in seagrass beds, often in turbid inshore waters. Usually solitary. Very territorial (Ref. 9710). Occasionally found to depths of 12 m (Ref. 26938).
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Importance

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aquarium: commercial
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Chaenopsis ocellata

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The bluethroat pikeblenny (Chaenopsis ocellata) is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. It can reach a maximum length of 12.5 centimetres (4.9 in) TL. It can also be found in the commercial aquarium trade.[2]

References

  • Gill, T. N. 1865 (May) On a new family type of fishes related to the blennioids. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York v. 8 (art. 15): 141–144, Pl. 3. [Reprint published between May and July 1865, plate probably in 1866.]
  1. ^ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Chaenopsis ocellata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T46104127A48409191. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T46104127A48409191.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Chaenopsis ocellata" in FishBase. February 2013 version.

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Chaenopsis ocellata: Brief Summary

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The bluethroat pikeblenny (Chaenopsis ocellata) is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. It can reach a maximum length of 12.5 centimetres (4.9 in) TL. It can also be found in the commercial aquarium trade.

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