Acanthemblemaria rivasi
The spotjaw blenny (Acanthemblemaria rivasi) is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs off Colombia and Costa Rica, in the western Atlantic Ocean.[2] he specific name is an eponym but the individual it honours has not been identified, but it is possibly Luis R. Rivas of the University of Miami who is known to have lent specimens to Stephens.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Chaenopsidae |
| Genus: | Acanthemblemaria |
| Species: | A. rivasi |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthemblemaria rivasi J. S. Stephens, 1970 | |
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References
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- Williams, J.T. (2014). "Acanthemblemaria rivasi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T47141727A48360975. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T47141727A48360975.en.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Acanthemblemaria rivasi" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
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