Acanthemblemaria hancocki
Hancock's blenny (Acanthemblemaria hancocki) is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs around Costa Rica and Panama, in the eastern central Pacific ocean. and can reach a maximum length of 4.5 cm (1.8 in) TL. This species feeds primarily on zooplankton.[2] The specific name honours the leader of the expedition on which the type was collected, the oil magnate and philanthropist Captain George Allan Hancock (1875-1965).[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Chaenopsidae |
| Genus: | Acanthemblemaria |
| Species: | A. hancocki |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthemblemaria hancocki G. S. Myers & Reid, 1936 | |
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References
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- Bessudo, S.; Dominici-Arosemena, A.; Espinosa, H. & Hastings, P.A. (2010). "Acanthemblemaria hancocki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T183841A8186567. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183841A8186567.en.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Acanthemblemaria hancocki" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
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