''Cancelloxus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
clinids
Clinidae is a family of marine fish in the order Blenniiformes within the series Ovalentaria, part of the Percomorpha . Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern Hemisph ...
found in the southeastern
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.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Cancelloxus burrelli''
J. L. B. Smith, 1961 (Slender platanna-klipfish)
* ''
Cancelloxus elongatus''
Heemstra & J. E. Wright, 1986 (Whiteblotched klipfish)
* ''
Cancelloxus longior''
Prochazka & Griffiths, 1991
References
Clinidae
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