Lupinoblennius nicholsi, the highfin blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean, on the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico in north-eastern Mexico and Texas, it has also been recorded from Englewood, Florida. This species reaches a length of 6 centimetres (2.4 in) TL.[3] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols (1883-1958).[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Blenniidae |
| Genus: | Lupinoblennius |
| Species: | L. nicholsi
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| Lupinoblennius nicholsi (Tavolga, 1954)
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References edit
- ^ Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Williams, J.T.; Tornabene, L.; Brenner, J.; Carlson, J.; Caruso, J.; Chakrabarty, P.; Collette, B.B.; Grubbs, D.; McEachran, J.D.; Simons, J.; Pezold, F.; Robertson, R.; Tornabene, L.; Lyons, T.J. (2019). "Lupinoblennius nicholsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T191828A67933230. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191828A67933230.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Synonyms of Lupinoblennius nicholsi at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Lupinoblennius nicholsi" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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