Acanthemblemaria

Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. These fish have elongated bodies with short, blunt heads. Their heads are armed with pointed or blunt spines on the snout and below the eye, and sometimes on top of the head. They also have two rows of well-developed teeth on the roof of the mouth, a single pair of branched or unbranched cirri over each eye, and cirri over the nostrils.

A notch usually separates the spiny and soft portions of the dorsal fin. The genus includes 22 recognized species. These blennies are mostly filter feeders, living among coral reefs, rocky reefs, and in abandoned worm and mollusc tubes. Their diet consists mainly of passing benthic crustaceans, zooplankton, and benthic worms.