Blackcheek Blenny
Starksia lepicoelia
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
- Labrisomidae
- Genus
- Starksia
Where to Find
Found in 32 diving areas across 19 countries and 3 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 5 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 2 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 5 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 5 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 14 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 12 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 34 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 16 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 9 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 9 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 22 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 13 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 3 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 16 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 4 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 100 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 4 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 9 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 22 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 6 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 13 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 2 records
- Utila, Honduras - 22 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 5 records