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Bony fish

Horned Blenny

Parablennius intermedius

Also known as: Coral Blenny, False Tasmanian Blenny, Reef Blenny, Rock Blenny

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2014
Adult
@OleJensen · berlin, Germany · June 20131 / 1
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Overview

Found in small schools, hiding in crevices and holes, amongst dead and live corals, also resting on jetty pylons, over shallow protected coastal bays, estuaries and harbours.
Western Pacific - Australia

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

Body shape
tentacles
Head & Mouth
eye stalks

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Pacific
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Found in small schools, hiding in crevices and holes, amongst dead and live corals, also resting on jetty pylons, over shallow protected coastal bays, estuaries and harbours.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderBlenniiformes
    5. familyBlenniidae
    6. genusParablennius
    7. speciesParablennius intermedius (Ogilby, 1915)

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    More in the family

    Combtooth Blennies (Blenniidae)