[4] Pearl blennies are pale in colour marked with dark brown bands and have extremely bright white spots along the length of theor whole bodies.

[1] The pearl blenny is found in the western central Atlantic where its distributions stretches from Bermuda to southeastern Florida, west to the Gulf of Mexico where it ranges from the Florida Keys to Campeche, Mexico, and south through the Caribbean Sea.

The smaller individuals stay lower down in the water column so that they can avoid harsher conditions.

[5] The males choose small crevices or empty shells which they clean out and the female will spawn into these.

[5] The eggs have an adhesive pad with which they stick to the internal surface of the nest.