Malacoctenus gilli
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| image = Malacoctenus gilli.jpeg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Malacoctenus gilli
| authority = (Steindachner, 1867)
| synonyms =
- Clinus gilli Steindachner, 1867
- Labrisomus biguttatus Cope, 1871
- Malacoctenus biguttatus (Cope, 1871)
- Malacoctenus puertoricensis Evermann & M.C. Marsh, 1899
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Malacoctenus gilli, the dusky blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Atlantic Ocean including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the Bahamas to the north coast of South America.
Characteristics
This species inhabits reef patches, areas of sandy substrates with available rocks and beds of seagrass at depths of from {{convert|1|to|5|m|ft}}. It can reach a length of {{convert|7.6|cm|in}} TL.{{FishBase |genus= Malacoctenus|species= gilli| month = October | year = 2013}} The person honoured in the patronym of this species was not identified by Steindachner but it is most probably the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914), the authority for the generic name Malacoctenus.{{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 = 30 April 2019}}
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Category:Fish of the Caribbean
Category:Fish described in 1867
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