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Cirripectes castaneus (Valenciennes, 1836) 
AphiaID: 219266

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Blenniidae (Family) > Salariinae (Subfamily) > Cirripectes (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cirripectes
Synonymised
taxa
  Cirrhipectes castaneus (Valenciennes, 1836) (misspelling)
Cirripectes gibbifrons Smith, 1947
Cirripectes reticulatus Fowler, 1946
Cirripectus castaneus (Valenciennes, 1836) (misspelling)
Cirripectus gibbifrons Smith, 1947 (misspelling)
Salarias castaneus Valenciennes, 1836
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

from synonym: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English chestnut blenny  [details]
English chestnut eyelash-blenny  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Cargados Carajos [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
Host of  Caligus saucius Dojiri, 1989 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Taeniacanthus glomerosus Dojiri & Cressey, 1987 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Taeniacanthus williamsi Dojiri & Cressey, 1987 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 20 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Occurs in wave-swept algal ridge (Porolithon ridge) of outer reef flats. Usually found on rocky and coralline substrates at depths less than 10 m. In the Red Sea, it has been collected as deep as 30 m, 32 m at Rowley Shoals off Western Australia. [details]

Remark: Authority Cuvier & Valenciennes in Randall<307> [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219266
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-06-18 06:08:16Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Cirripectes castaneus (Valenciennes, 1836). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219266 on 2013-05-20
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