The browncheek blenny (''Acanthemblemaria crockeri'') is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in

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s in the

Gulf of California The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Bermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja Ca ...

, in the eastern central Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of TL. This species feeds primarily on

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. The identity of the person honoured in the

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of this specie was not specified but it is thought to be the explorer and philanthropist Charles Templeton Crocker (1884-1948).

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* crockeri Fish of the Gulf of California browncheek blenny Taxa named by William Beebe Taxa named by John Tee-Van {{Chaenopsidae-stub