Acanthemblemaria harpeza
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Acanthemblemaria harpeza is a species of chaenopsid blenny
in the genus Acanthemblemaria
. It is found around Navassa Island
, in the western central Atlantic ocean. It was named by J.T. Williams in 2002. The species name "harpeza" is Greek
for "thorn hedge", referring to the thornbush-like nasal and orbital spines and cirri on the blennies' heads.
Chaenopsidae
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...
in the genus Acanthemblemaria
Acanthemblemaria
Acanthemblemaria is a genus of fish in the Chaenopsidae family.It contains the following species:* Acanthemblemaria aspera -- roughhead blenny * Acanthemblemaria atrata Hastings and Robertson, 1999...
. It is found around Navassa Island
Navassa Island
Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, claimed as an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Haiti, which claims to have had sovereignty over Navassa since 1801, also claims the island...
, in the western central Atlantic ocean. It was named by J.T. Williams in 2002. The species name "harpeza" is Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
for "thorn hedge", referring to the thornbush-like nasal and orbital spines and cirri on the blennies' heads.