''Labrisomus'' is a genus of

labrisomid Labrisomids are small blennioids (blennies), percomorph marine fish belonging to the family Labrisomidae. Found mostly in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, the family contains about 110 species in 15 genera. Stockier than the average bl ...

blennies native to the western

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ocean and the eastern

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...

Species

There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Labrisomus conditus ''Labrisomus conditus'', the Masquerader hairy blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil, and it has been reported from Florida, United States, in the Atlantic Ocean Th ...

'' I. Sazima ( fr), Carvalho-Filho, Gasparini & C. Sazima, 2009 (Masquerader hairy blenny) * '' Labrisomus cricota'' I. Sazima ( fr), Gasparini & R. L. Moura, 2002 (Mock blenny) * '' Labrisomus fernandezianus'' ( Guichenot, 1848) * '' Labrisomus jenkinsi'' ( Heller &

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, 1903) (Jenkins' blenny) * '' Labrisomus multiporosus'' C. Hubbs, 1953 (Porehead blenny) * '' Labrisomus nuchipinnis'' ( Quoy &

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, 1824) (Hairy blenny) * '' Labrisomus philippii'' ( Steindachner, 1866) (Chalapo clinid) * '' Labrisomus pomaspilus'' V. G. Springer &

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, 1965 * '' Labrisomus socorroensis'' C. Hubbs, 1953 (Misspelled blenny) * '' Labrisomus wigginsi'' C. Hubbs, 1953 (Baja blenny) * '' Labrisomus xanti'' T. N. Gill, 1860 (Largemouth blenny)

References

Labrisomidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by William John Swainson {{Labrisomidae-stub