Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment.
Chasmodes bosquianus, the striped blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean, from New York to Florida. The specific name uses the suffix-ianus to denote "belonging to" and refers to the French naturalist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759-1828), whose notes Bernard Germain de Lacépède used to base his description of this blenny.
Chasmodes longimaxilla, the stretchjaw blenny or longjaw blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Atlantic ocean.
Hypleurochilus is a genus of combtooth blennies found throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
Hypleurochilus aequipinnis, the oyster blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. This species grows to a length of 7.5 centimetres (3.0 in) TL.
Hypleurochilus bananensis is a species of combtooth blenny which is patchily distributed in the eastern central Atlantic ocean from Israel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This species grows to a length of 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) SL.
Hypleurochilus bermudensis, the barred blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.
Hypleurochilus caudovittatus, the zebratail blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Atlantic ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico off the western coast of Florida.
Hypleurochilus fissicornis is a species of combtooth blenny found in the Azores and southwest Atlantic ocean off eastern South America from Paraíba to Uruguay. This species grows to a length of 8.7 centimetres (3.4 in).
Hypleurochilus geminatus, the crested blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.
Hypleurochilus langi is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic ocean, from Senegal to the mouth of the Congo River. This species grows to a length of 7 centimetres (2.8 in) SL. This blenny is euryhaline and it enters mouths of large rivers and occurs among mangroves, it prefers brackish water. The specific name of this blenny honours the German zoologist and taxidermist Herbert Lang (1879-1957) of the American Museum of Natural History, who helped to collect the type.
Hypleurochilus multifilis, the featherduster blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico around Texas, USA. Its distribution extends from central Florida to Tabasco, Mexico.
Hypleurochilus springeri, the orange-spotted blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea. This species grows to a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL. The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Victor G. Springer.
Hypsoblennius exstochilus, the longhorn blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Atlantic ocean. This species grows to a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL.
Hypsoblennius hentz, the feather blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Atlantic ocean. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) total length. The feather blenny can be found in the western Atlantic Ocean. They range from Nova Scotia, Canada to Texas along the North American shore. Often, feather blenny can be found in oyster reefs and rocky shores. The identity of the person honoured in this species' specific name is uncertain but it is thought that to have been the French American arachnologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797-1856) who is the "Mr Hentz" from Charleston, North Carolina who sent the type to Lesueur.
Hypsoblennius ionthas, the freckled blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean.
Chaenopsis megalops is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Colombia, in the western central Atlantic Ocean.
Pavoclinus myae, or Mya's klipfish, is a species of clinid fish found from East London to Algoa Bay along the coast of South Africa. The specific name honors the primary author's then fiancée, Mya van Harten.
Hypleurochilus brasil is a species of combtooth blenny from the subfamily Salarinae of the family Blenniidae. It is endemic to the reefs around Trindade and Martin Vaz off Brazil in the western South Atlantic Ocean.
