Crested blenny
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| Parablennius laticlavius (Griffin, 1926) |
The crested blenny, Parablennius laticlavius, is a blenny of the genus Parablennius, found around New South Wales, Australia and New Zealand to depths of about 3 metres, in reef areas of broken rock. Its length is between 3 and 8 centimetres.
The crested blenny has a scaleless skin and a blunt head, topped off with a large forked cirrus above each eye from which it gets its common name. There is a dark brown stripe running from the top of the gill cover to the caudal peduncle.
The crested blenny lives in small holes, either natural rock crevices or holes vacated by rock boring mollusks or tube worms. They back into these homes when danger threatens.
In the winter and spring breeding season females lay their eggs in the males home where they can be easily defended until they hatch.
Food consists of small crustaceans and barnacle cirri.
[edit] References
- Parablennius laticlavius (TSN 636471). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 11 March 2006.
- "Parablennius laticlavius". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
