''Labrisomus cricota'', the Mock blenny, is a species of

labrisomid Labrisomids are small blennioids (blennies), percomorph marine fish belonging to the family Labrisomidae. Found mostly in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, the family contains about 110 species in 15 genera. Stockier than the average ble ...

blenny native to the western

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...

and the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...

where it occurs on rocky bottoms with plentiful algal growth at depths down to . It is believed that the territorial males keep harems of females. Males of this species can reach a length of SL while females can attain a length of . This is a species sought after by local subsistence fisheries.

References

cricota Fish described in 2002 {{Labrisomidae-stub