Hirculops cornifer
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Hirculops cornifer is a species of combtooth blenny
found in the western Indian ocean
. It belongs to the monotypic
genus Hirculops. It was first described by Rüppell in 1830, and is commonly known as the highbrow rockskipper.
Combtooth blenny
Combtooth blennies are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae. They are the largest family of blennies, with approximately 371 species in 53 genera represented...
found in the western Indian ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
. It belongs to the monotypic
Monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group with only one biological type. The term's usage differs slightly between botany and zoology. The term monotypic has a separate use in conservation biology, monotypic habitat, regarding species habitat conversion eliminating biodiversity and...
genus Hirculops. It was first described by Rüppell in 1830, and is commonly known as the highbrow rockskipper.