''Ecsenius lineatus'', known commonly as the linear blenny or lined combtooth blenny, is a
species
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of marine
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
in the
family
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Blenniidae.
The linear blenny is widespread throughout the
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
waters of the
Indo-West Pacific area and particularly from the eastern coast of
Africa
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to the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
[
It grows to a size of 8 cm in length.][Lieske & Myers,''Coral reef fishes'',Princeton University Press, 2009, ]
References
External links
*http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219272
*fran.cornu.free.fr/affichage/affichage_nom.php?id_espece=1423
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lineatus
Taxa named by Wolfgang Klausewitz
Fish described in 1962
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