Spinyhead Blenny
Acanthemblemaria spinosa
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Chaenopsidae
- Genus
- Acanthemblemaria
Where to Find
Found in 40 diving areas across 24 countries and 4 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 16 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 4 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 2 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 2 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 4 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 2 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 37 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 37 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 6 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 28 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 15 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 9 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 5 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 1 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 3 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 3 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 2 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 12 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 14 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 23 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 4 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 35 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 32 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 15 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 24 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 28 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 2 records
- Utila, Honduras - 31 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 3 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 16 records