The Galapagos barnacle blenny (''Acanthemblemaria castor'') is a species of
chaenopsid blenny endemic to
coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups.
Co ...
s in the
Galapagos Islands, in the southeast
Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
TL. The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
honours a naturalist at the
Charles Darwin Foundation,
Academy Bay,
Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Miguel Castro.
References
External links
* Stephens, J. S. Jr., E. S. Hobson, and R. K. Johnson 1966 (7 Sept.)
''Notes on distribution, behaviour, and morphological variation in some chaenopsid fishes from the tropical eastern Pacific, with descriptions of two new species, Acanthemblemaria castroi and Coralliozetus springeri.''Copeia 1966 (no. 3): 424–438.
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castroi
Endemic fauna of the Galápagos Islands">Acanthemblemaria">castroi
Endemic fauna of the Galápagos Islands
Galápagos Islands coastal fauna
Fish described in 1966, Galapagos barnacle blenny
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