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Cirripectes
Cirripectes is a large genus of combtooth blennies found throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans. Cirripectes biconvexus, an otolith based fossil species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of southwestern India (Quilon Formation) is probably the earliest record of this genus.
24 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 24 known species
Chestnut Blenny
speciesCirripectes castaneus
Lady Musgrave blenny
speciesCirripectes chelomatus
Redstreaked Blenny
speciesCirripectes stigmaticus
Scarface Blenny
speciesCirripectes vanderbilti
Filamentous Blenny
speciesCirripectes filamentosus
Hutchins' Blenny
speciesCirripectes hutchinsi
Eared Blenny
speciesCirripectes auritus
Red-speckled Blenny
speciesCirripectes variolosus
Barred Blenny
speciesCirripectes polyzona
Springer's Blenny
speciesCirripectes springeri
Whitedotted Blenny
speciesCirripectes alboapicalis
Imitator Blenny
speciesCirripectes imitator
Gargantuan Blenny
speciesCirripectes obscurus
Matatakaro Blenny
speciesCirripectes matatakaro
Flaming blenny
speciesCirripectes perustus
spotted blenny
speciesCirripectes fuscoguttatus
Cargados Coral Blenny
speciesCirripectes randalli
Zebra Blenny
speciesCirripectes quagga
Yellowtail Blenny
speciesCirripectes heemstraorum
Kimberley Blenny
speciesCirripectes alleni
Cirripectes viriosus
speciesCirripectes viriosus
Cirripectes gilberti
speciesCirripectes gilberti
Cirripectes jenningsi
speciesCirripectes jenningsi
Cirripectes kuwamurai
speciesCirripectes kuwamurai
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87500.