Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Stichaeidae > Xiphister > Xiphister mucosus

Xiphister mucosus (Rock prickleback; Rock blenny)

Synonyms: Xiphidion mucosum; Xiphidium cruoreum; Xiphistes mucosus
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Phyllospadix scouleri (Scouler's surfgrass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cebidichthys violaceus (Monkeyface prickleback)1

Predators

Eumetopias jubatus (Steller Sea Lion)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Optimal diets in complex environments: feeding strategies of two herbivorous fishes from a temperate rocky intertidal zone, M.H. Horn, Oecologia (Berlin)(1983) 58:345-350
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0