Acanthemblemaria aspera (Longley, 1927)
Roughhead blenny
Acanthemblemaria aspera
photo by Burek, Joyce/Frank

 Family:  Chaenopsidae (Pike-, tube- and flagblennies)
 Max. size:  4 cm TL (male/unsexed)
 Environment:  reef-associated
 Distribution:  Western Atlantic: southeastern Florida (USA), Bahamas, and Yucatan, Mexico to the Greater Antilles and Panama. Antilles and western Caribbean (Ref. 26938).
 Diagnosis:   
 Biology:  Almost always found in holes of corals. Feed on amphipods and copepods (Ref. 5521). Main diet of benthic harpacticoid copepods (Ref. 94105). Oviparous (Ref. 56066). Eggs are attached to the walls of the parent's shelter and are brooded by the male parent (Ref. 56066).
 IUCN Red List Status:   (Ref. 96402)
 Threat to humans:  harmless
 Country info:   
 

 Entered by: Froese, Rainer - 01.05.91
 Modified by: Hilomen, Teresa - 07.10.13
 Checked by: Torres, Armi G. - 26.08.94

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