Review of Japanese Fishes of the Genus Cirripectes (Blenniidae) with Description of a New Species

R. Fukao

DOI:10.11369/JJI1950.31.105

Corpus ID: 89186469

Review of Japanese Fishes of the Genus Cirripectes (Blenniidae) with Description of a New Species

@article{Fukao1984ReviewOJ,
  title={Review of Japanese Fishes of the Genus Cirripectes (Blenniidae) with Description of a New Species},
  author={R. Fukao},
  journal={Japanese Journal of Ichthyology},
  year={1984},
  volume={31},
  pages={105-121}
}

R. Fukao

Published 1984

Biology

Japanese Journal of Ichthyology

A new species,Cirripectes kuwamurai is described based on a single specimen from Shirahama,Japan.Other three species of the genus,C.variolosus(Valenciennes),C.castaneus (Valenciennes)and C.polyzona(Bleeker)from Japan are redescribed.Cirripectes kuwarnurai differs from C.auritus Carlson in its color pattern and by the presence of a notch between spinous and soft portions of dorsal fin.Other characters shared by these two species suggest that they are each others' relatives and form a species… CONTINUE READING

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