Emblemaria culmenis
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Emblemaria culmenis, known commonly as the Ridge blenny in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, is a species of chaenopsid blenny
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 Emblemaria
Emblemaria
Emblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies found throughout the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.-Species:* Banner blenny, Emblemaria atlantica * Emblemaria australis...

. It is known from a single specimen collected in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

, in the western central Atlantic ocean. It was named by John S. Stephens, jr., in 1970, and is known to reach a length of 5.1 centimetres.
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