''Stathmonotus culebrai'', the Panamanian worm blenny, is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found in rocky
reef
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s around
Costa Rica
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and
Panama
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, in the eastern central
Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
TL.
References
* Seale, A., 1940 (29 Apr.)
Report on fishes from Allan Hancock Expeditions in the California Academy of Sciences'' Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 1932–40, Los Angeles v. 9 (no. 1): 1-46, 1–5.
culebrai
Fish described in 1940
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