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Flagtail wormfish
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Clarkichthys J.L.B. Smith, 1958
Species:	C. bilineatus
Binomial name
Clarkichthys bilineatus (H. W. Clark, 1936)
Synonyms
Cerdale bilineatus H. W. Clark, 1936

The flagtail wormfish (Clarkichthys bilineatus) is a species of wormfish native to the Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico to Colombia as well as the Galápagos Islands. It is an inhabitant of tide pools and reefs being found down to a depth of about 8 metres (26 ft). This species grows to a length of 6.2 centimetres (2.4 in) SL. This species is the only known member of its genus. The generic name is a compound noun made up of the surname Clark, to honour the American ichthyologist H. Walton Clark (1870-1941) who described the species and ichthys the Greek for "fish".

References

1. Van Tassell, J. (2010). "Clarkichthys bilineatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T178084A7484933. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T178084A7484933.en.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Clarkichthys bilineatus". FishBase. December 2013 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 August 2018.

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