Overview
Family : Combtooth blennies ; Occur in the intertidal zone of rocky shores , rocky reef flats [1], including rock pools , harbors and mangrove zones[2]. Oviparous [3].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Danish:
Hj, Hjælmslimfisk
Common Names in English:
Black-lined blenny, lined blenny, Lined rockskipper, lumphead blenny, Thin-lined rockskipper
Common Names in Fijian:
Mokusiga
Common Names in Japanese:
Sen-kaeru-uo
Common Names in Mahl:
Digu-funna, Kattu
Common Names in Malayalam:
Kakkadan, Mandian, കക്കാടന്, കാക്കടന് , മണ്ടിന്, മണ്ടിയന്
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
紋身動齒鳚, 紋身蛙鳚, 線紋鳳鳚, 纹身动齿鳚, 纹身蛙鳚, 线纹凤鳚
Common Names in Marshall:
Jibalan
Common Names in Marshallese:
Jibalan
Description
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,452 meters (0 to -17,887 feet).[4]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Actinopterygii
()
- Order:
Perciformes
()
- Family:
Occur in the intertidal zone of rocky
shores, r
()
- Tribe:
Salariini
()
- Genus:
Istiblennius
()
- Whitley, 1943
- Specific name:
lineatus
- Scientific name: - Istiblennius lineatus (Valenciennes, 1836)
- Specific name:
lineatus
- Genus:
Istiblennius
(
- Tribe:
Salariini
(
- Family:
Occur in the intertidal zone of rocky
shores, r
(
- Order:
Perciformes
(
- Class:
Actinopterygii
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Synonyms
Halmablennius lineatus (Valenciennes • Istiblennius lineatus • Istiblennius lineatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1836) • Istiblennius lineatus (Valenciennes, 1836) • Salarias hasseltii Bleeker • Salarias kingii Valenciennes • Salarias lineatus • Salarias lineatus Valenciennes • Salarias lineatus Valenciennes, 1836 • Salarias lividus Thiollière • Salarias mccullochi Fowler & Bean • Salarias multilineatus Fowler
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 30-Aug-1994
Similar Species
Members of the genus Istiblennius
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:
I. afilinuchalis (Striped Rockskipper) · I. bellus (Beautiful Rockskipper) · I. bellus impudens (Impspringer) · I. coronatus (Smooth-Lipped Blenny) · I. dussumieri (Dussumier´s Blenny) · I. edentulus (Smooth-Lipped Blenny) · I. edentulus enosimae (Coral Blenny) · I. enosimae (Mottled Blenny) · I. flaviumbrinus (Pallid Rockskipper) · I. lineatus (Thin-Lined Rockskipper) · I. meleagris (White-Speckled Blenny) · I. pox (Scarface Rockskipper) · I. spilotus (Spotted Rockskipper) · I. unicolor (Pallid Rockskipper) · I. zebra (Zebra Rock Skipper)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 229.
- NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 25.
- Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic revision of the Blenniid Fish genera Cirripectes and Scartichthys / 1986. url p. 305.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Bishop Museum Data
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South Western Pacific Regional OBIS Data All Sea Bio Subset
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection
- National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- OZCAM
- Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
- Senckenberg, Collection Pisces
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center, Fish Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 129748
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25980
- Fishbase Species ID: 6050
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13287057
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 171241
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 113801
Footnotes
- Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
- Kuiter, R. H. and Tonozuka (2001). Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 2. Fusiliers - Dragonets, Caesionidar - Callionymidae. Zoonetics, Australia. 304-622 p. [back]
- Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen (1966). Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. [back]
- Mean = -1,227.770 meters (-4,028.117 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,471.880 based on 193 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
