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Title: Secretary Blenny. Cayman Islands.
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A secretary blenny (Acanthemblemaria maria) makes its home in a boulder brain coral (Colpophyllia natans). These gregarious tube blennies tend to occupy old wormholes in the coral and form small colonies with a strict social hierarchy. The larger dominant males occupy the most spacious worm tubes and prefer holes highest up in the colony, where they have the easiest access to their planktonic food. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Anthozoans: Anthozoa
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- boulder brain coral: Colpophyllia natans
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- coral reef
- Faviidae
- Faviina
- Fishes
- Grand Cayman
- Invertebrates
- macro
- Marine Life
- secretary blenny: Acanthemblemaria maria
- Stony Corals: Scleractina: Scleractinia
- tropical
- Tube Blennies: Chaenopsidae
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