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Ophioblennius
Sign in to saveOphioblennius is a genus of combtooth blennies native to the Atlantic and to the Pacific coasts of the Americas.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyBlenniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 55
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Collections
- CUMV, SIO, LSUMZ, CAS, ANSP, UF
- Recorded in
- Equatorial Guinea, Mexico, Costa Rica, Sao Tome And Principe, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Philippines, Chile
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Ophioblennius is a genus of combtooth blennies native to the Atlantic and to the Pacific coasts of the Americas.
==Species== There are currently five recognized species in this genus: Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes, 1836) (Horseface blenny) Ophioblennius clippertonensis V. G. Springer, 1962 (Clipperton blenny) Ophioblennius macclurei (Silvester, 1915) (Redlip blenny) Ophioblennius steindachneri D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1898 (Large-banded blenny) Ophioblennius trinitatus A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1919 (Triple Blenny)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ophioblennius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.