A Blenny for Your Thoughts

[TheRedHead]

Location: Paradise Reef, Cozumel, hiding in a hole in a boulder star coral

Secretary Blenny?

 

[isurus]

I'll say definately an Acanthemblemaria but possibly A. aspera (roughhead) rather than A. maria:
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3708

 

[archman]

Frankly, I'm more interested in the micro-debris around his hole. What IS that, barf?

 

[isurus]

What IS that, barf?

Could well be cos he does look a little rough-headed!

 

[Rick Murchison]

Why that there's a green little blenny
Cute little rascal...
(As for the stuff around the hole, I reckon that has to do with what made the hole and nothing to do with the blenny)
Rick

 

[TheRedHead]

Here's another photo of the cute guy:

He does look more like a roughhead here.

 

[erparamedic]

What a little cutie!! We don't have cutesy little stuff like that around here.... it's just quarry divin' for me.

Just curious.... how big, or little, was he?

 

[TheRedHead]

He was about an inch. You can't really see them clearly and have to point a macro lens towards the hole, by patient, and snap a lot of photos.

 

[erparamedic]

Wow! Well, he's a cute lil fella. Thanks for sharing the pic.

 

[TheRedHead]

Now I'm also considering Spinyhead Blenny: A. spinosa