''Haptoclinus dropi'', the Four-fin blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny only known to occur off of

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

in the

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where it was collected from a deep-sea

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at a depth between . The only specimen collected, a female, measured SL.

Etymology

The species is named after the

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's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP), under which program this species was discovered. The proposed common name, "Four-fin blenny", is based on the species'

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configuration.Baldwin, C.C. & Robertson, D.R. (2013)
A new Haptoclinus blenny (Teleostei, Labrisomidae) from deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean, with comments on relationships of the genus.
''ZooKeys, 306: 71–81.''

References

dropi Fish described in 2013 {{Labrisomidae-stub