''Cirripectes vanderbilti'', the scarface 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

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s in the

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and Johnston islands in the eastern central

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ocean. This species reaches a length of SL. The species was first described in 1938 by Henry W. Fowler under the name ''Ophioblennius vanderbilti'' from a specimen collected near Diamond Head, Oahu in 1937 by the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition.

References

vanderbilti Fish of Hawaii Fish described in 1938 {{Blenniidae-stub