Malacoctenus gilli, the dusky blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Atlantic Ocean including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the Bahamas to the north coast of South America.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Labrisomidae |
| Genus: | Malacoctenus |
| Species: | M. gilli
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| Malacoctenus gilli (Steindachner, 1867)
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Characteristics edit
This species inhabits reef patches, areas of sandy substrates with available rocks and beds of seagrass at depths of from 1 to 5 metres (3.3 to 16.4 ft). It can reach a length of 7.6 centimetres (3.0 in) TL.[2] The person honoured in the patronym of this species was not identified by Steindachner but it is most probably the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914), the authority for the generic name Malacoctenus.[3]
References edit
- ^ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Malacoctenus gilli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T46104265A48355222. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T46104265A48355222.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Malacoctenus gilli" in FishBase. October 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
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