Cirripectes obscurus

Cirripectes obscurus, the gargantuan blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny considered endemic to coral reefs in the Hawaiian island chain, although one putative specimen has been collected in the Austral Islands,[2] indicating a possible antitropical distribution. This species reaches a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) TL.[3]

Cirripectes obscurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Cirripectes
Species:
C. obscurus
Binomial name
Cirripectes obscurus
(Borodin, 1927)
Synonyms

Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927

References

  1. Williams, J.T. (2014). "Cirripectes obscurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342089A48405779. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342089A48405779.en.
  2. Delrieu-Trottin, Erwan; Liggins, Libby; Trnski, Thomas; Williams, Jeffrey T.; Neglia, Valentina; Rapu-Edmunds, Cristian; Planes, Serge; Saenz-Agudelo, Pablo (2018-12-20). "Evidence of cryptic species in the blenniid Cirripectes alboapicalis species complex, with zoogeographic implications for the South Pacific". ZooKeys. 810: 127–138. doi:10.3897/zookeys.810.28887. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6308223. PMID 30613176.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Cirripectes obscurus" in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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