The papillose blenny (''Acanthemblemaria chaplain'') is a species of
chaenopsid blenny found in the western
Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
ocean. It can reach a maximum length of
TL. The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
honours the
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
Charles C. G. Chaplin (1906-1991).
References
chaplini
Fauna of the Bahamas
Fish of Cuba
Fish of the Caribbean
Fish of the Dominican Republic
papillose blenny
Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke
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