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Common names: Brazilian blenny
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Also Ref. 13628.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Martin, F.D. and J.W. Patus, 1984
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Common names from other countries

Sapito de lalandi, 德氏软梳鳚, Macaquinho comum, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Blenniiformes (Blennies) > Labrisomidae (Labrisomids)
Etymology: Malacoctenus: Greek, malakos = soft + Greek, kteis, ktenos = comb (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Valenciennes.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated. Tropical

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Southwestern Atlantic: Belize, Central America, and Puerto Rico; Caribbean, to Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 13628)

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Dorsal spines (total): 20; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 7 - 21. This species is distinguished from its southwestern Atlantic congeners by the following set of characters: D XX,9-11 (rarely XIX or XXI); A II,17-21; pectoral-fin rays14-15 (rarely 13); length of third pelvic-fin ray contained 2.5 to 3.0 times in second pelvic-fin ray; lateral-line scales 48-56; total nuchal cirri 24-36; pectoral-fin base and midline before dorsal-fin no scales; breast usually fully scaled in males, often naked in females; pores 2-3 from preopercular canal onto opercle. Colouration: pattern dominated by 5-6 (rarely 7), saddle-like bars on body, extending to spiny dorsal fin (Ref. 123106).

Occurs in shallo reefs (Ref. 123106), on sandy bottoms and Thalassia testudinum beds (Ref. 13628). Feeds mainly on crustaceans but also on gastropods and worms (Ref. 13628).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Williams, Jeffrey T. | Collaborators

Carvalho-Filho, A., I. Sazima, S.M.Q. Lima, D. Almeida, L. Mendes, R.M. Dias, M.R. Britto and J.L. Gasparini, 2020. Review of the genus Malacoctenus (Actinopterygii: Labrisomidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4819(3):499-520. (Ref. 123106)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 18 October 2007

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.1 - 28.1, mean 27.3 (based on 722 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00603 (0.00294 - 0.01235), b=3.08 (2.89 - 3.27), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.49 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Fec = 4,000).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Malacoctenus delalandii (Valenciennes, 1836)