Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Acanthemblemaria: Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, emblema, -atos, anything that is nailed, knocked in; also anything with bass or high relief[1] Body elongated; head short and blunt; pointed or blunt spines on snout, below eye, sometimes on top of head; 2 rows of very well developed teeth on the roof of the mouth; 1 pair of branched or unbranched cirri over eyes; cirri over nostrils; usually with a notch between the spiny and soft parts of the dorsal fin The 21 recognized species in this genus are:[2] Acanthemblemaria are mostly filter feeding fishes, they inhabit coral reefs, rocky reefs and abandoned worm and mollusc tubes.

[4] They feed mostly on passing benthic crustaceans, zooplankton, benthic worms,

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