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Teleostei (teleosts) > Blenniiformes (Blennies) > Chaenopsidae (Pike-, tube- and flagblennies)
Etymology: Chaenopsis: Greek, chaeno = to yawn + Greek, opsis = appearance (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Robins & Randall.

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Marine; reef-associated; depth range 5 - 20 m (Ref. 9710). Tropical

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Western Central Atlantic: Florida (USA), Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Grand Cayman Island, Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbados, Aruba, Curaçao, Colombia, and Venezuela.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7251)

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Dorsal spines (total): 18 - 21; Dorsal soft rays (total): 31 - 36; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 33 - 37. Light brown with pale dots and a narrow mid-lateral brown stripe, sometimes broken into blotches; faint bars on body; small black spot at front of dorsal fin; mature males with more yellow on head, gill membranes black; branchiostegal rays blue (Ref. 13442).

Occurs in groups, one to a hole, in limestone or coral rubble in clear water. Feeds on small crustaceans, worms, and fishes (Ref. 5521).

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 18 October 2007

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 26.4 - 28.2, mean 27.5 °C (based on 520 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5010 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00457 (0.00183 - 0.01143), b=3.08 (2.86 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.7 ±0.55 se; based on food items.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 141 [72, 235] mg/100g; Iron = 0.741 [0.425, 1.247] mg/100g; Protein = 18.4 [17.3, 19.5] %; Omega3 = 0.105 [0.058, 0.187] g/100g; Selenium = 21.4 [9.3, 46.7] μg/100g; VitaminA = 182 [59, 544] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.96 [1.27, 2.80] mg/100g (wet weight);

Chaenopsis limbaughi Robins & Randall, 1965