The dusky crawler (''Sticharium clarkae'') is a species of

clinid 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 Hemis ...

native to the coast of southern

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, where it lives around coastal outcrops in which it can find partially sheltered, sandy bays. It can be found at depths from . It can reach a maximum total length of . The

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of this clinid honours

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Eugenie Clark (1922-2015) of the University of Maryland.

References

clarkae Fish described in 1980 Taxa named by Victor G. Springer {{Clinidae-stub