Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Blenniidae > Plagiotremus > Plagiotremus tapeinosoma

Plagiotremus tapeinosoma (calico blenny; Slender blenny; Scale-eating fangblenny; Scale-eating blenny; Piano fangblenny; Piano blenny; Mimic blenny; Hit and run blenny)

Synonyms: Aspidontus tapeinosoma; Petroscirtes tapeinosoma; Petroskirtes tapeinosoma; Plagiotremus tapeinosomus; Runula tapeinosoma
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Wikipedia Abstract

The mimic blenny or piano fangblenny, Plagiotremus tapeinosoma, is a blenny of the genus Plagiotremus, with a widespread Indo-Pacific distribution including New Zealand from depths of 8 to 30 metres (26 to 98 ft). This species reaches a length of 14 centimetres (5.5 in) TL.
View Wikipedia Record: Plagiotremus tapeinosoma

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paragyliauchen chaetodontis[1]
Prosorhynchoides ozakii[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 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.
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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