Malacoctenus gilli

Malacoctenus gilli, the dusky blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Atlantic Ocean including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the Bahamas to the north coast of South America.

Malacoctenus gilli
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Labrisomidae
Genus:	Malacoctenus
Species:	M. gilli
Binomial name
Malacoctenus gilli (Steindachner, 1867)
Synonyms
Clinus gilli Steindachner, 1867 Labrisomus biguttatus Cope, 1871 Malacoctenus biguttatus (Cope, 1871) Malacoctenus puertoricensis Evermann & M.C. Marsh, 1899

Characteristics

This species inhabits reef patches, areas of sandy substrates with available rocks and beds of seagrass at depths of from 1 to 5 metres (3.3 to 16.4 ft). It can reach a length of 7.6 centimetres (3.0 in) TL.^[2] The person honoured in the patronym of this species was not identified by Steindachner but it is most probably the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914), the authority for the generic name Malacoctenus.^[3]