Kingdom Animalia Suborder Blennioidei Genus Cirripectes Phylum Chordata Order Perciformes | Class Actinopterygii Family Blenniidae Scientific name Cirripectes vanderbilti Rank Species | |
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Similar Cirripectes, Cirripectes auritus, Blenniella gibbifrons, Istiblennius zebra | ||
Cirripectes vanderbilti, the Scarface blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Hawaiian and Johnston islands in the eastern central Pacific ocean. This species reaches a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) SL.
The species was first described in 1938 by Henry W. Fowler under the name Ophioblennius vanderbilti from a specimen collected near Diamond Head, Oahu in 1937 by the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition.
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