''Chasmodes'' is a small
genus
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of
combtooth blennies
Combtooth blennies are blenniiformids; percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 genera. Combtooth blennies are found in tropical ...
found in the western
Atlantic Ocean
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.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Chasmodes bosquianus''
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* Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756–1825), French naturalist and politician.
* Lacepede Bay, a bay in South Australia.
* Lacépède, Lot-et-Garonne, a ''commune'' in France
* Lacepede Islands, a group of four islands in ...
, 1800) (Striped blenny)
* ''
Chasmodes longimaxilla
''Chasmodes longimaxilla'', the stretchjaw blenny or longjaw blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It co ...
''
J. T. Williams
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, 1983 (Stretchjaw blenny)
* ''
Chasmodes saburrae
''Chasmodes saburrae'', the Florida blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Atlantic Ocean, around the coast of the United States.
Description
The Florida blenny is a small fish growing to a maximum length of but ...
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D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882 (Florida blenny)
References
Salarinae
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