Fishgod Blenny
Malacoctenus ebisui Springer, 1959
Also calledBlenia (spa) · trambollo dorado (spa)
First described in: Springer, V. G. (1959). Systematics and zoogeography of the clinid fishes of the subtribe Labrisomini Hubbs. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Texas.</em> 5 (for Dec. 1958): 417-492.
Malacoctenus ebisui, the Fishgod blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Pacific coast of the Americas from the Gulf of California to Panama. This species can reach a length of 6.5 centimetres (2.6 in) TL. The specific name refers to Ebisu, a Japanese god of fishermen, as does the common name.
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description
Fishgod Blenny. To 6.5 cm (2.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Tip of Baja California, and Mazatlán, Mexico to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2015); apparently not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to 21 m (69 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2389504.