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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyLabrisomidae
  5. ›genusMalacoctenus
Malacoctenus erdmani
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Imitator blenny

Malacoctenus erdmani Smith, 1957

Also calledsapito imitador (spa) · trambollo imitador (spa)

First described in: Smith, C. L. (1957). Two new clinid blennies (Malacoctenus) from Puerto Rico. <em>Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan.</em> 585: 1-15, Pl. 1.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2389507.