WoRMS taxon details
Hypleurochilus geminatus (Wood, 1825)
159602 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159602)
accepted
Species
Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825) Wood, W. W. (1825). Descriptions of four new species of the Linnaean genus Blennius, and a new Exocoetus. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> v. 4 (pt 2): 278-284, Pl. 17. [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Texas, including southern Florida
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Texas, including southern Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hypleurochilus geminatus (Wood, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159602 on 2025-11-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825) Wood, W. W. (1825). Descriptions of four new species of the Linnaean genus Blennius, and a new Exocoetus. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> v. 4 (pt 2): 278-284, Pl. 17. [details]
basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details]
basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina to Texas, including southern Florida [details]Habitat benthic [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | crested blenny | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hypleurochilus geminatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825)
To GenBank (79 nucleotides; 86 proteins) (from synonym Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825)
To GenBank (79 nucleotides; 86 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypleurochilus geminatus RAD106881-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypleurochilus geminatus RAD109110-001)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hypleurochilus geminatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825)
To GenBank (79 nucleotides; 86 proteins) (from synonym Blennius geminatus Wood, 1825)
To GenBank (79 nucleotides; 86 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypleurochilus geminatus RAD106881-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypleurochilus geminatus RAD109110-001)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
