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Main identification features
- cirri: 1 branched over eye
- d: notch behind spines
- lateral linecomplete
- large canines: rear of both jaws
- gill membranes broadly fused on throat
HYPLEUROCHILUS
BLENNIES
Head large, blunt; body elongate, compressed; a single branched cirrus over eye; mouth at front, teeth like incisors, with a large curved canine at rear of each jaw; gill membranes broadly fused on throat, gill opening ends at level of lower base of pectoral fin; dorsal fin with a distinct notch between spiny and soft parts; pectoral fin typically 14 rays; lateral line unbroken, curved down behind end of pectoral, ends above ~middle of anal fin.
A tropical Atlantic and Mediterranean genus with 11 species; one Caribbean species has passed through the Panama Canal and is known from the Pacific entrance to that Canal.
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References |
- Bath, H., 1994., Untersuchung der Arten Hypleurochilus geminatus (Wood 1825), H. fissicornis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) und *H. aequipinnis* (Günther 1861), mit Revalidation von *Hypleurochilus multifilis* (Girard 1858) und Beschreibung von zwei neuen Arten., Senckenbergiana Biologica, 74:59-85.
- McCosker , J. E. and Dawson, C. E., 1975., Biotic passage through the Panama Canal, with particular reference to fishes., Marine Biology, 30:343-351.
- Randall, J.E., 1966., The West Indian blenniid fishes of the genus Hypleurochilus, with the description of a new species., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 79:57-72.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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