''Emblemaria atlantica'', the Banner blenny, 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.
C ...
s in the western
Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
TL.
References
* Jordan, D. S. and B. W. Evermann 1898 (26 Nov.) ''The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III.'' Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 47: i-xxiv + 2183a-3136.
atlantica
Atlantica ( gr, Ατλαντικα; ''Atlantika'') is an ancient continent that formed during the Proterozoic about (two billion years ago, Ga) from various 2 Ga cratons located in what are now West Africa and eastern South America.
The name, ...
Fish described in 1898
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