Cirripectes
Cirripectes is a large genus of combtooth blennies found throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans. Cirripectes biconvexus, an otolith based fossil species from the Burdigalian of southwestern India is probably the earliest record of this genus.
Species
There are currently 24 recognized species in this genus:Cirripectes alboapicalis Cirripectes alleni J. T. Williams, 1993 Cirripectes auritus Carlson, 1981 Cirripectes castaneus Cirripectes chelomatus J. T. Williams & Maugé, 1984 Cirripectes filamentosus Cirripectes fuscoguttatus Strasburg & L. P. Schultz, 1953 Cirripectes gilberti J. T. Williams, 1988Cirripectes heemstraorum J. T. Williams, 2010 Cirripectes hutchinsi J. T. Williams, 1988Cirripectes imitator J. T. Williams, 1985 Cirripectes jenningsi L. P. Schultz, 1943Cirripectes kuwamurai Fukao, 1984- Cirripectes matatakaro M. L. Hoban & Williams, 2020 Cirripectes obscurus Cirripectes perustus J. L. B. Smith, 1959 Cirripectes polyzona Cirripectes quagga Cirripectes randalli J. T. Williams, 1988Cirripectes springeri J. T. Williams, 1988 Cirripectes stigmaticus Strasburg & L. P. Schultz, 1953 Cirripectes vanderbilti Cirripectes variolosus Cirripectes viriosus J. T. Williams, 1988Cirripectes biconvexus Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022