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Malacoctenus ebisui
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Malacoctenus ebisui

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Malacoctenus ebisui
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Malacoctenus tetranemus

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Overview
Main identification features
  • head slender, pointed
  • branched cirri: nape and eyes
  • d: notch behind spines
  • top jaw bone skin covered
MALACOCTENUS

BLENNIES

Head slender, snout pointed; a pair of heavily branched nape cirri, a branched cirrus over eye; side of top jaw covered by bone under eye; notch between spines and rays of dorsal fin.

A neotropical genus of 18 species that occurs on both sides of the Atlantic as well as our region, where there are 9 endemics.


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