''Cirriemblemaria lucasana'', the plume blenny, is a species of

pikeblenny The blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all percomorph marine fish in the order Blenniiformes. The family is strictly tropical, ranging from North to South America. Members are also present ...

found in

coral reefs 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 ...

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 C ...

. 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 ...

. It and can reach a maximum length of TL.

References

* Stephens, J. S. Jr. 1963 (31 Dec.) ''A revised classification of the blennioid fishes of the American family Chaenopsidae.'' University of California Publications in Zoology v. 68: 1–165, Pls. 1-15. Chaenopsidae Fish described in 1963 Monotypic fish genera {{Chaenopsidae-stub