Acanthemblemaria harpeza

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Craig, M.T. |author2=Williams, J.T. |date=2015 |title=Acanthemblemaria harpeza |volume=2015 |page=e.T47141354A67949758 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T47141354A67949758.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Acanthemblemaria harpeza

| authority = J. T. Williams, 2002

| range_map = Acanthemblemaria harpeza range.png

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Acanthemblemaria harpeza is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Navassa Island, in the western central Atlantic ocean.{{FishBase |genus= Acanthemblemaria|species= harpeza| month = February | year = 2013}}

Etymology

The species name "harpeza" is Greek for "thorn hedge", referring to the thornbush-like nasal and orbital spines and cirri on the blennies' heads.

{{cite journal|author=Williams, J. T. |year=2002|url=http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/9789/1/vz_Williams_2002_three_new_Navassa_blennioids1.pdf |title=Three new species of blennioid shore fishes discovered at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea|journal=Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology |volume=6 |issue=1|pages=11–16}}

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Category:Fish described in 2002

Category:Fish of the Caribbean

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