| Cirripectes vanderbilti | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Blenniidae |
| Genus: | Cirripectes |
| Species: | C. vanderbilti |
| Binomial name | |
| Cirripectes vanderbilti (Fowler, 1938) | |
Cirripectes vanderbilti, the scarface blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Hawaiian and Johnston islands in the eastern central Pacific ocean. This species reaches a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) SL.[2]
The species was first described in 1938 by Henry W. Fowler under the name Ophioblennius vanderbilti from a specimen collected near Diamond Head, Oahu in 1937 by the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition.[3]
References
- ↑ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Cirripectes vanderbilti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342499A48407219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342499A48407219.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Cirripectes vanderbilti" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ↑ Fowler, Henry W. (1938). The Fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. Philadelphia. pp. 242–243.
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