''Emblemaria piratica'', the sailfin signal blenny, is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found from southern
Mexico
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to
Panama
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, in the eastern central
Pacific
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ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
TL. This species feeds primarily on
zooplankton
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.
References
* Ginsburg, I. 1942 (15 Dec.) ''Seven new American fishes.'' Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences v. 32 (no. 12): 364–370.
piratica
Fish described in 1942
Taxa named by Isaac Ginsburg
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