| Acanthemblemaria | |
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| Acanthemblemaria atrata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Chaenopsidae |
| Genus: | Acanthemblemaria Metzelaar, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919 | |
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Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Acanthemblemaria: Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass [sic] or high relief.
Body elongated; head short and blunt; pointed or blunt spines on snout, below eye, sometimes on top of head; 2 rows of very well developed teeth on the roof of the mouth; 1 pair of branched or unbranched cirri over eyes; cirri over nostrils; usually with a notch between the spiny and soft parts of the dorsal fin.
The 22 recognized species in this genus are:
Acanthemblemaria species are mostly filter feeding fishes, they inhabit coral reefs, rocky reefs and abandoned worm and mollusc tubes.
They feed mostly on passing benthic crustaceans, zooplankton and benthic worms.
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