''Ekemblemaria'' is a genus of chaenopsid blennies found in the eastern

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and western

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oceans.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''

Ekemblemaria lira ''Ekemblemaria lira'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny known from a single specimen from Las Palmas, near Esmeraldas, Ecuador, in the eastern Pacific ocean. References * Hastings, P. A. 1992 (18 Aug.) ''Ekemblemaria lira, a new blennioid fish ...

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, 1992 * ''

Ekemblemaria myersi ''Ekemblemaria myersi'', the Reefsand blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found from the Gulf of California to Colombia, in the eastern central Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of TL. This species feeds primarily on zoobentho ...

'' J. S. Stephens, 1963 (Reefsand blenny) * ''

Ekemblemaria nigra ''Ekemblemaria nigra'', the Moth blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs around Colombia and Panama, in the western Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area o ...

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, 1928) (Moth blenny)

References

Chaenopsidae {{Chaenopsidae-stub