Acanthemblemaria
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| Acanthemblemaria | |
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| Acanthemblemaria atrata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Chaenopsidae |
| Genus: | Acanthemblemaria Metzelaar, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Acanthemblemaria spinosa Metzelaar, 1919 | |
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Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Description
Body elongated; head short and blunt; pointed or blunt spines on snout, below eye, sometimes on top of head; 2 rows of very well developed teeth on the roof of the mouth; 1 pair of branched or unbranched cirri over eyes; cirri over nostrils; usually with a notch between the spiny and soft parts of the dorsal fin
