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Issue: Vol. 4816 No. 2: 16 Jul. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.2.5
Page range: 209–216
Abstract views: 281
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Acanthemblemaria aceroi, a new species of tube blenny from the Caribbean coast of South America with notes on Acanthemblemaria johnsoni (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae)

Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093–0208, U.S.A.
Department of Marine Biology, Texas A & M University at Galveston, PO Box 1675, Galveston, TX 77553, U.S.A.
Friday Harbor Laboratories and Burke Museum, University of Washington, 620 University Dr., Friday Harbor, WA 98250, U.S.A.
Pisces Chaenopsidae Acanthemblemaria barnacle blennies southern Caribbean upwelling zone

Abstract

Acanthemblemaria aceroi new species is described from the upwelling region of the Caribbean coasts of Venezuela and Colombia. It differs from its closest relative, Acanthemblemaria rivasi Stephens, 1970, known from Panama and Costa Rica, in the posterior extent of the infraorbitals, details of head spination, and unique COI sequences. The description of Acanthemblemaria johnsonsi Almany & Baldwin, 1996, heretofore known only from Tobago, is expanded based on specimens from islands offshore of eastern Venezuela.

 

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