''Chasmodes bosquianus'', the striped blenny, is a species of

combtooth blenny 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 tropic ...

found in the western

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ocean, from

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. The specific name uses the suffix''-ianus'' to denote "belonging to" and refers to the

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naturalist

Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (or Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic) (29 January 1759 – 10 July 1828) was a French botanist, invertebrate zoologist, and entomologist. Biography Bosc was born in Paris, the son of Paul Bosc d’Antic, a medical docto ...

(1759-1828), whose notes Bernard Germain de Lacépède used to base his

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of this blenny.

References

striped blenny Fish of the Eastern United States Fauna of the Southeastern United States striped blenny {{Blenniidae-stub