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Bony fish

Yaeyama Blenny

Ecsenius yaeyamaensis

Also known as: Coral Blenny, Pale-spotted Combtooth, Pale-spotted Combtooth Blenny, Reef Blenny, Rock Blenny, Yaeyama Clown Blenny

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2026
Adult
@greatwhite · Turquoise Bay, Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth, WA, Australia · August 20121 / 5
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Overview

Found singly or in small schools, sitting on boulders and rocks, over shallow waters of coastal and inner reef crests rich in coral growth.

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 · Indo-West Pacific
  • Exact location · 1
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LIVES IN

Found singly or in small schools, sitting on boulders and rocks, over shallow waters of coastal and inner reef crests rich in coral growth.

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Adult photos 5

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  • white· 4 May 2016

    it is very recorsueful doing my project thanks a lot

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Taxonomy

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classTeleostei
  4. orderBlenniiformes
  5. familyBlenniidae
  6. genusEcsenius
  7. speciesEcsenius yaeyamaensis (Aoyagi, 1954)

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More in the family

Combtooth Blennies (Blenniidae)