''Meiacanthus fraseri'' is a species of

combtooth blenny Combtooth blennies are blenny, blenniiformids; Percomorpha, percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the Order (biology), order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 genera. Com ...

found in the western

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, around

Cargados Carajos Saint Brandon (), also known as the Cargados Carajos Shoals, is a southwest Indian Ocean archipelago of sand banks, shoals and islets belonging to the Republic of Mauritius. It lies about northeast of the island of Mauritius. It consists of fiv ...

. This species grows to a length of SL. Its

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honours Thomas H. Fraser of the

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who collected the

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References

fraseri Fish described in 1976 Endemic fauna of Mauritius {{Blenniidae-stub