''Protemblemaria bicirrus'', the warthead blenny, is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found in rocky
reef
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s from the
Gulf of California
The Gulf of California (), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Vermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from ...
to
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
, in the eastern
Pacific
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ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
TL.
References
* Hildebrand, S.F., 1946 (26 Feb.) ''A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru.'' Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 189: i-xi + 1–530.
bicirrus
Fish described in 1946
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