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Chaenopsidae (flag blennies)

Wikipedia Abstract

The blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all perciform marine fish. The family is strictly tropical, ranging from North to South America. Members are also present in waters off Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Fourteen genera and 90 species are represented, the largest being the sarcastic fringehead, Neoclinus blanchardi, at 30 cm (12 in) in length; most are much smaller, and the group includes perhaps the smallest of all vertebrates, Acanthemblemaria paula, measuring just 1.3 cm (0.51 in) long as an adult.
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Genus

Acanthemblemaria (Pikeblenny) (24)
Chaenopsis (Pikeblenny) (11)
Cirriemblemaria (1)
Coralliozetus (Pikeblenny) (7)
Ekemblemaria (Pikeblenny) (3)
Emblemaria (Sailfin blenny) (16)
Emblemariopsis (Sailfin blenny) (16)
Hemiemblemaria (Pikeblenny) (1)
Lucayablennius (Pikeblenny) (1)
Mccoskerichthys (Pikeblenny) (1)
Neoclinus (Pikeblenny) (12)
Protemblemaria (Pikeblenny) (3)
Stathmonotus (Pikeblenny) (7)
Tanyemblemaria (Pikeblenny) (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0