Cirripectes vanderbilti

Cirripectes vanderbilti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Blennioidei
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.[1]

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.[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Cirripectes vanderbilti" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  2. Fowler, Henry W. (1938). The Fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. Philadelphia. pp. 242–243.


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