''Emblemaria caycedoi'', the Colombian blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around

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, in the western central

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honours the young marine biologist Enrique Caycedo Lara, who died in 1978.

References

* Acero P., A. 1984 ''A new species of Emblemaria (Pisces: Clinidae: Chaenopsinae) from the southwestern Caribbean with comments on two other species of the genus.'' Bulletin of Marine Science v. 35 (no. 2): 187–194. caycedoi Fish described in 1984 {{Chaenopsidae-stub