Leaping Blenny
Alticus saliens
Also known as: Crested Blenny, Jumping Blenny, Leaping Rockskipper, Lizard Skipper, Rock Hopper, Rockskipper, Walking Blenny
- Crested Blenny
- Jumping Blenny
- Leaping Rockskipper
- Lizard Skipper
- Rock Hopper
- Rockskipper
- Walking Blenny
Overview
Found singly, skipping from pool to pool, over very shallow, coastal rock pools. Breathing air when out of water.
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.
How to identify
- Pattern
- bars
- Behaviour
- breathes airsolitaryterritorial
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Indo-Pacific
- Country only · 3
Found singly, skipping from pool to pool, over very shallow, coastal rock pools.
Adult photos 3
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