Alticus anjouanae

{{Short description|Species of combtooth blenny in the family Blenniidae}}

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| image = Combtooth blenny mudskipper (Alticus anjouanae) Reunion.jpg

| image_caption = Trois-Bassins, La Réunion

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=Alticus anjouanae |volume=2014 |page=e.T61935587A61935687 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T61935587A61935687.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Alticus

| species = anjouanae

| authority = (Fourmanoir, 1955)

| synonyms_ref = [http://www.catalogueoflife.org/details/species/id/7552196 Alticus anjouanae] at Catalogue of Life.[http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=52971&SynCode=128433&GenusName=Alticus&SpeciesName=anjouanae Synonyms of Alticus anjouanae] at www.fishbase.org.

| synonyms = * Andamia anjouanae Fourmanoir, 1955

• Damania anjouanae (Fourmanoir, 1955)

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Alticus anjouanae is a species of combtooth blenny (family Blenniidae) in the genus Alticus. Fourmanoir originally placed this species in the genus Andamia.Fourmanoir, P., 1955 [ref. 12271] Ichthyologie et pêche aux Comores. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. Série A, Biologie Animale v. 9: 187-239. It is a tropical blenny known from Comoros, Seychelles, and Réunion, in the western Indian Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 7.6 centimetres (2.99 inches).{{FishBase|Alticus|anjouanae|month=October|year=2018}} Blennies in this species are oviparous and form distinct pairs when mating. They feed primarily off of benthic algae and weeds.