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Springer's Coral Blenny

Ecsenius springeri

Also known as: Clown Blenny, Springer's Blenny, Clown Blenny and Springer's Blenny

ENEndangeredIUCN Red List, 2025
Adult
@fishx6 · Navy Pier, Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth, WA, Australia · March 20141 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, often seen perched on live corals.
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

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Pacific
  • Exact location · 1
LIVES IN

Found singly, often seen perched on live corals.

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderBlenniiformes
    5. familyBlenniidae
    6. genusEcsenius
    7. speciesEcsenius springeri Allen, Erdmann & Liu, 2019

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    More in the family

    Combtooth Blennies (Blenniidae)