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Bicolor Blenny

Ecsenius bicolor

Also known as: Bicolor Combtooth Blenny, Bicolor Coral Blenny, Bi-colored Blenny, Coral Blenny, Flametail Blenny, Reef Blenny, Rock Blenny, Two-color Combtooth, Two-color Combtooth Blenny, Two-colored Blenny, Two-tone Combtooth Blenny., Two-tone Combtooth Blenny

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2026
Adult
@KitBrennan · Lighthouse Bommie - Coral Sea, Australia · July 20091 / 8
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Overview

Found singly, often in abandoned burrows and worm tubes, amongst mixed corals, over clear water lagoons and seaward reefs, rich in algae growth. Colours vary from two colours to white bellied, with dark stripe on side and arched line behind and below the eye.
They feed on algae, from dead coral bases.

Combtooth Blennies are the largest family of blennies, found in both tropical and subtropical waters and freshwater habitats, as the name suggests they have comb like teeth lining their jaws, well suited for scraping food off hard surfaces!
Reef and rock blennies are usually territorial and have their own areas of rock pools which they skip and jump over, scraping algae from the surface of dead corals. Some male blennies have small harems of arguing females.
Males and females often have different colouring and features.

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How to identify

Pattern
stripes

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
  • Country only · 8
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Found singly, often in abandoned burrows and worm tubes, amongst mixed corals, over clear water lagoons and seaward reefs, rich in algae growth.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderBlenniiformes
    5. familyBlenniidae
    6. genusEcsenius
    7. speciesEcsenius bicolor (Day, 1888)

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    More in the family

    Combtooth Blennies (Blenniidae)