| Monkeyface prickleback | |
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| At the Monterey Bay Aquarium | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Stichaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Xiphisterinae |
| Genus: | Cebidichthys Ayres, 1855 |
| Species: | C. violaceus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cebidichthys violaceus (Girard, 1854)
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The monkeyface prickleback (Cebidichthys violaceus), also commonly known as the monkeyface eel, is a species of prickleback native to the Pacific coast of North America. Despite being commonly called an eel due to its body shape, it does not fall into the fish order Anguilliformes with true eels, but either the Perciformes,[1] along with nearly half of all bony fish, or the Scorpaeniformes,[2] according to different authorities.
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