WoRMS taxon details
Cirripectes obscurus (Borodin, 1927)
276723 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276723)
accepted
Species
Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927) Borodin, N. A. (1927). A new blenny from the Hawaiian Islands. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> No. 281: 1-2. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Cirripectes obscurus (Borodin, 1927). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276723 on 2026-07-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927) Borodin, N. A. (1927). A new blenny from the Hawaiian Islands. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> No. 281: 1-2. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cirripectes obscurus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cirripectes obscurus FIN026900 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cirripectes obscurus FIN026901 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cirripectes obscurus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Exallias obscurus Borodin, 1927)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cirripectes obscurus FIN026900 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cirripectes obscurus FIN026901 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS