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Banner Blenny

Emblemaria atlantica

Classification

Emblemaria atlantica, the banner blenny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Chaenopsidae, which includes the tubeblennies and pikeblennies. This fish is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Emblemaria atlantica was first formally described in 1898 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann with its type locality given as snapper banks off Pensacola, Florida, as part of the stomach contents of a Northern red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1