Labrisomus xanti

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hastings, P. |date=2010 |title=Labrisomus xanti |volume=2010 |page=e.T183840A8186454 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183840A8186454.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Labrisomus xanti

| authority = T. N. Gill, 1860

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Labrisomus xanti, the Largemouth blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Pacific coast of Mexico from Baja California to Jalisco. It inhabits shallow waters. This species can reach a length of {{convert|17.8|cm|in}} TL.{{FishBase |genus= Labrisomus|species= xanti| month = October | year = 2013}} The specific name honours the collector of the type, the Hungarian zoologist John Xantus (1825-1894).{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes3/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE | work = ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 10 November 2018 | accessdate = 29 April 2019}}

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xanti

Category:Taxa named by Theodore Gill

Category:Fish described in 1860

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