Hancock's blenny (''Acanthemblemaria hancocki'') is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found in
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 around
Costa Rica
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and
Panama
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, in the eastern central
Pacific ocean. and can reach a maximum length of
TL. This species feeds primarily on
zooplankton
Zooplankton are the animal component of the planktonic community ("zoo" comes from the Greek word for ''animal''). Plankton are aquatic organisms that are unable to swim effectively against currents, and consequently drift or are carried along by ...
. 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 the leader of the expedition on which the
type was collected, the oil magnate and philanthropist Captain
George Allan Hancock (1875-1965).
References
External links
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Hancocki
Western Central American coastal fauna
Fish of Costa Rica
Fish of Panama
Hancock's blenny
Taxa named by Earl Desmond Reid
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