Exerpes | |
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Conservation status
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Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Blenniiformes |
Family: | Labrisomidae |
Genus: | Exerpes D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 |
Species: | E. asper
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Binomial name | |
Exerpes asper (O. P. Jenkins & Evermann, 1889)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Exerpes asper, the Sargassum blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast of Baja California. According to Fishbase it is currently the only known member of its genus,[3] however, the Catalog of Fishes classifies it within the genus Paraclinus.[2]