Protemblemaria
Encyclopedia
Protemblemaria is a genus of fish
in the Chaenopsidae
family, found in the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic oceans.
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the Chaenopsidae
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...
family, found in the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic oceans.
Species
- Warthead blenny, Protemblemaria bicirrusProtemblemaria bicirrusProtemblemaria bicirrus, known commonly as the Warthead blenny in Mexico and the United Kingdom, is a species of chaenopsid blenny in the genus Protemblemaria. It is found in rocky reefs from the Gulf of California to Peru, in the eastern Pacific ocean. It was named by Hildebrand in 1946, and can...
(Hildebrand, 1946) - Protemblemaria perlaProtemblemaria perlaProtemblemaria perla, known commonly as the pearl blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny in the genus Protemblemaria.-Etymology:P. perla was described by Philip A Hastings in 2001...
(Hastings, 2001) - Protemblemaria punctataProtemblemaria punctataProtemblemaria punctata is a species of fish in the Chaenopsidae family. It is endemic to Venezuela.-Source:* Acero, A. 1996. . Downloaded on 4 August 2007....
(Cervigón, 1966)