Cancelloxus elongatus, known commonly as the whiteblotched klipfish in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, is a species of clinid

Clinid

Clinids are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Clinidae. Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern Hemisphere...

 in the genus Cancelloxus

Cancelloxus

Cancelloxus is a genus of clinids found in the southeastern Atlantic ocean.-Species:* Slender platanna-klipfish, Cancelloxus burrelli * Whiteblotched klipfish, Cancelloxus elongatus...

. It is a subtropical blenny found around South Africa, in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

. It was named by P.C. Heemstra and J.E. Wright in 1986, and can reach a maximum length of 5 centimetres. Blennies in this species feed primarily off of zoobenthos.