''Stathmonotus sinuscalifornici'', the California worm blenny or the Gulf worm blenny, is a species of
chaenopsid blenny known from 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
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 ...
.
References
;Bibliography
* Chabanaud, P., 1942 ''Contribution à la morphologie de Téléostéens appartenant à diverses familles de l'ordre des Blennoidea. Description d'une espèce et d'un genre inédits.'' Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France v. 67: 111–120.
;Citations
sinuscalifornici
Fish described in 1942
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