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Glossy Blenny
Malacoctenus zonifer (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
Also calledBlenia Brillante (spa) · trambollo brilloso (spa)
First described in: Jordan, David S. & Charles H. Gilbert. 1882. Descriptions of thirty-three new species of fishes from Mazatlan, Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 4: 338-365.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Glossy Blenny. To 8 cm (3.1 in). Punta Hughes (24 ° 45.2 ’ N, 112 ° 15.9 ’ W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); tip of Baja California; Gulf of California to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2008). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen (2008).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2389494.