Malacoctenus erdmani

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| image = Imitator Blenny - Malacoctenus erdmani.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=Malacoctenus erdmani |volume=2014 |page=e.T47144448A48382072 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T47144448A48382072.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Malacoctenus erdmani

| authority = C. L. Smith, 1957

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Malacoctenus erdmani is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea from the Bahamas to Curaçao. This species is an inhabitant of reefs where it prefers areas that provide hiding places such as coral rubble and rock and patches of algae. It can reach a length of {{convert|3.8|cm|in}} TL.{{FishBase |genus= Malacoctenus|species= erdmani| month = October | year = 2013}} The specific name honours the fishery biologist Donald S. Erdman.{{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 | access-date = 30 April 2019}}