Cirripectes quagga és una espècie de peix de la família dels blènnids i de l'ordre dels perciformes.
Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 10 cm de longitud total.Lieske, E. i R. Myers, 1994. Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Harper Collins Publishers, 400 p.
Reproducció És ovípar.Breder, C.M. i D.E. Rosen, 1966. Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City (Estats Units). 941 p.
Hàbitat És un peix marí de clima tropical i associat als esculls de corall que viu entre 0-19 m de fondària.Williams, J. T., 1988: Revision and phylogenetic relationships of the blenniid fish genus Cirripectes. Indo-Pacific Fishes Núm. 17: 1-78, Pls. 1-7.
Distribució geogràfica Es troba des de Sud-àfrica fins a Tanzània, Pitcairn, les Hawaii,Strasburg, D.W., 1956. Notes on the blennioid fishes of Hawaii with descriptions of two new species. Pac. Sci. 10:241-267.Randall, J.E., J.L. Earle, T. Hayes, C. Pittman, M. Severns i R.L.F. Smith, 1993. Eleven new records and validations of shore fishes from the Hawaiian Islands. Pac. Sci. 47(3):222-239.Mundy, B.C., 2005. Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Zoology. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. (6):1-704. la XinaRandall, J.E. i K.K.P. Lim (editors), 2000. A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea. Raffles Bull. Zool. Suppl. (8):569-667.Huang, Z., 2001. Marine species and their distribution in China's seas. p. 404- 463. Vertebrata. Smithsonian Institution, Florida, Estats Units. 598 p. i la Gran Barrera de Corall.Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen i R.C. Steene, 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p.Fowler, H.W. i S.C. Ball, 1924. Descriptions of new fishes obtained by the Tanager Expedition of 1923 in the Pacific Islands west of Hawaii. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 76:269-274.Kapoor, D., R. Dayal i A.G. Ponniah, 2002. Fish biodiversity of India. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources Lucknow, Índia.775 p.Myers, R.F., 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p.Myers, R.F., 1999. Micronesian reef fishes: a comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 330 p.Wass, R.C., 1984. An annotated checklist of the fishes of Samoa. Natl. Ocean. Atmos. Adminis. Tech. Rept., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rept. Fish. (781).Winterbottom, R. i R.C. Anderson, 1997. A revised checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Ichthyol. Bull. Smith. Inst. (66):1-28.
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Schultz, L. P., 1941: The species of Cirripectes Swainson and a new genus of blennioid fishes from the tropical Pacific. Copeia 1941 (núm. 1): 17-20. Springer, V.G., 1986. Blenniidae. p. 742-755. A M.M. Smith i P.C. Heemstra (editors) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlín. Springer, V.: Blennies. Planes 214-217 a W.N. Eschmeyer, J. R. Paxton, editors. Encyclopedia of Fishes – 2a edició, San Diego, Califòrnia: Academic Press. Any 1994. Strasburg, D.W. i L.P. Schultz, 1953. The blenniid fish genera Cirripectus and Exallias with description of two new species from the tropical Pacific. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 43:128-135. Wheeler, A.: The World Encyclopedia of Fishes, 2a edició, Londres: Macdonald. Any 1985. Williams, J. T., 1986: Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic revision of the Blenniid fish genera Cirripectes and Scartichthys. Dissertation Abstracts International v. 47 (núm. 5): 1-2.
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