''Emblemaria hudsoni'' is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

, in the southeast

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ocean. It can reach a maximum length of TL. The

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honours the Captain Charles Bradford Hudson (1865-1939) of the

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, who was an

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and who painted many species of American fishes.

References

* Evermann, B.W., and L. Radcliffe, 1917 (1 Aug.) ''The fishes of the west coast of Peru and the Titicaca Basin.'' Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 95: i-xi + 1–166, Pls. 1-14. hudsoni Fish described in 1917 Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann Fish of Peru {{Chaenopsidae-stub