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

Throatspotted Blenny

Malacoctenus tetranemus (Cope, 1877)

Also calledBlenia Moteada (spa) · Clínido Cameleón (spa) · trambollo pintado (spa)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

description

Speckled Blenny or Throatspotted Blenny. To 7.5 cm (3 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahía Santa Maria (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) (labelled as Malacoctenus afuerae) and Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Thomson et al. 1979) to Chile (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 25 m (83 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).

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 2389523.