The seafan blenny (''Emblemariopsis pricei'') is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found in
Glover's Reef
Glover's Reef is a partially submerged atoll located off the southern coast of Belize, approximately 45 kilometres from the mainland. It forms part of the outermost boundary of the Belize Barrier Reef, and is one of its three atolls, besides Turnef ...
, on the coasts of
Belize
Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...
and
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
, in the western
Atlantic
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ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
SL. 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 premier of Belize at the time Greenfield was give permission to collect
specimens in Bleize,
George C. Price (1919-2011).
References
* Greenfield, D.W., 1975 (31 Dec.) ''Emblemariopsis pricei, a new species of chaenopsid blenny from Belize.'' Copeia 1975 (no. 4): 713–715.
pricei
Fauna of Belize
Fish of Honduras
Fish described in 1975
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