Main identification features
- cirri: small, branched, nape - 1pr
- d: xx1,10; spines lower than rays
- breast and belly scaleless
- a: i; rays thick, membranes cut to bases
INTERMEDIARY BLENNIES
Body moderately elongate; head bulbous, slightly depressed; lips fleshy; top rear corner of top jaw inserts in a cheek pouch; teeth conical, stout, slightly curved; lower front teeth enlarged; teeth on roof of mouth at front only; nasal, eye and nape cirri small, branched; dorsal spines soft, flexible, low, about equal height, lower than and more than soft rays, last three spines shorter, forming a distinct notch between spines and rays; anal fin with I spine, soft rays thickened, with fleshy tips, membranes between soft rays notched nearly to base of rays; all fin rays unbranched; breast and belly without scales; rear of scales with membranous pockets.
This genus contains a single species known only from two specimens collected in the Galapagos Islands.
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- McCosker, J.E., Stephens, J.S. and Rosenblatt, R.H., 2003., Cottoclinus canops, a new genus and species of blenny (Perciformes: Labrisomidae) from the Galápagos Islands., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 54:155-160.
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