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Cirripectes

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Cirripectes
Cirripectes vanderbilti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Subfamily: Salarinae
Genus: Cirripectes
Swainson, 1839
Type species
Salarias variolosus
Valenciennes, 1836[1]

Cirripectes is a large genus of combtooth blennies found throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans. Cirripectes biconvexus, an otolith based fossil species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of southwestern India (Quilon Formation) is probably the earliest record of this genus.[2]

Species

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There are currently 24 recognized species in this genus:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cirripectes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. 97: 43–80. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cirripectes". FishBase. February 2013 version.
  4. ^ Hoban, Mykle L.; Williams, Jeffrey T. (2020-03-24). "Cirripectes matatakaro , a new species of combtooth blenny from the Central Pacific, illuminates the origins of the Hawaiian fish fauna". PeerJ. 8: e8852. doi:10.7717/peerj.8852. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7100598. PMID 32231888.