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Malacoctenus tetranemus
Description
Malacoctenus tetranemus (Cope, 1877).
Speckled Blenny or Throatspotted Blenny. To 7.5 cm (3 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahía Santa Maria (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) (labelled as Malacoctenus afuerae) and Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Thomson et al. 1979) to Chile (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 25 m (83 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Labrisomidae
- Genus
- Malacoctenus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cope
- Species
- tetranemus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Malacoctenus tetranemus (Cope, 1877) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.