Mochima National Park is one of the most important coastal and marine areas with coral reef development in the
northeastern of Venezuela with a diverse and well studied ictofauna, nevertheless there is not much available information about small
cryptobenthic fish associated to these reefs. The aim of this research was to determine the community fish structure at some coral reefs
of the park; visual censuses were carried out using band transects of 10x2 m along the depth gradient at the localities Manare,
Garrapata, El Vapor y Varadero. A total of 14 species were recorded from 4 families (8 Gobiidae, 3 Chaenopsidae, 2 Bleniidae and 1
Labrisomidae). In terms of abundance and species richness the most important family was Gobiidae followed by Chaenopsidae,
which coincide with the results reported for shallow reefs in the country, being Gobiidae the most abundant family at Manare,
Garrapata and Varadero, while the Chaenopsidae was at El Vapor. It is important to emphasize that this is the first report that considers
the community fish structure, and distribution of this group of small fishes at Mochima National Park.