Orangethroat Pikeblenny

Description:

Photo take at -30 ft near a coral reef this pike bleany just show out of his sand tube, this is a very small fish about 7 cm long has a grate sailfin very rare to see usually Pike fish don´t go outside the hole where inhabitant. Light brown with pale dots and a narrow mid-lateral brown stripe, sometimes broken into blotches; faint bars on body; small black spot at front of dorsal fin; mature males with more yellow on head, gill membranes black; branchiostegal rays blue.

Habitat:

Found in sand areas usually in small holes in the sand or some sand tubes from Florida all the Caribbean sea to Venezuela.

Notes:

Pike made a sand tube that it glue whit some special saliva this is a very unique shelter long and narrow.