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 tropic ...
found in the western
Pacific
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and
Indian
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oceans. Many species in this genus make their way into the
aquarium
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trade and several are
venomous
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. The genus name ''Meiacanthus'' is derived from the
Greek
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''meion'' meaning "less" and ''akantha'' meaning "thorn" and refers to most species having relatively few
dorsal fin
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spines.
Species
There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:
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Meiacanthus abditus
The upside-down harptail blenny (''Meiacanthus abditus'') is a species of combtooth blenny found around the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipe ...
Meiacanthus abruptus
''Meiacanthus'' is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. Many species in this genus make their way into the aquarium trade and several are venomous. The genus name ''Meiacanthus'' is derived from the Gree ...
Meiacanthus anema
''Meiacanthus anema'', the threadless blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in Asia and Oceania. This species grows to a length of SL. This venomous species can also be found in the aquarium
An aquarium (: aquariums or aquaria) ...
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Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Meiacanthus atrodorsalis
''Meiacanthus atrodorsalis'', the forktail blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean. This species grows to a length of TL. This venomous species can also be found in the aquarium
An aqua ...
Meiacanthus bundoon
''Meiacanthus bundoon'', the Bundoon blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny from the Pacific Ocean where it is known from Fiji and Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The c ...
Meiacanthus cyanopterus
''Meiacanthus'' is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. Many species in this genus make their way into the aquarium trade and several are venomous. The genus name ''Meiacanthus'' is derived from the Gree ...
Meiacanthus erdmanni
''Meiacanthus'' is a genus of combtooth blenny, combtooth blennies found in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, Indian oceans. Many species in this genus make their way into the aquarium trade and several are venomous. The genus name ''Meiacan ...
Meiacanthus fraseri
''Meiacanthus fraseri'' is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Indian Ocean, around Cargados Carajos. This species grows to a length of SL. Its specific name honours Thomas H. Fraser of the Mote Marine Laboratory who collected ...
Meiacanthus geminatus
''Meiacanthus geminatus'' is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Pacific Ocean where it is known from Darvel Bay, Borneo and Palawan, Philippines. This species grows to a length of SL.
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Meiacanthus grammistes
''Meiacanthus grammistes'', the striped blenny, also called the striped fang blenny, grammistes blenny, line-spot harptail blenny or striped poison-fang blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny from the western Pacific Ocean. The fish stays in t ...
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, 1836) (Striped poison-fang blenny)
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Meiacanthus kamoharai
''Meiacanthus kamoharai'' is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean, around southern Japan. This species grows to a length of TL.
Etymology
The specific name honours the Japanese ichthyologist Toshiji ...
Meiacanthus limbatus
''Meiacanthus limbatus'', the Manus fangblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Pacific Ocean, around Papua New Guinea
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Meiacanthus lineatus
''Meiacanthus lineatus'', the lined fangblenny, is a venomous species of combtooth blenny found in the Great Barrier Reef in the western Pacific Ocean
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J. L. B. Smith
James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyology, ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought t ...