''Emblemaria hypacanthus'', the Gulf signal blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny known from the

Gulf of California The Gulf of California (), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Vermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from ...

, in the eastern central

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

ocean. It can reach a maximum length of TL. This species feeds primarily on

zooplankton Zooplankton are the heterotrophic component of the planktonic community (the " zoo-" prefix comes from ), having to consume other organisms to thrive. Plankton are aquatic organisms that are unable to swim effectively against currents. Consequent ...

References

* Jenkins, O.P., and B.W. Evermann, 1889 (5 Jan.) ''Description of eighteen new species of fishes from the Gulf of California.'' Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 11 (no. 698): 137–158.

External links

* hypacanthus Fish described in 1889 Taxa named by Oliver Peebles Jenkins Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann {{Chaenopsidae-stub