Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Blenniidae > Petroscirtes > Petroscirtes breviceps

Petroscirtes breviceps (Striped poison-fang blenny mimic; Striped fangblenny mimic; Short-headed blenny; Short-head sabretooth blenny; Black-banded blenny)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Petroscirtes breviceps, the striped poison-fang blenny mimic, striped fangblenny mimic, short-head sabretooth blenny, short-headed blenny, sabretooth blenny, or the black-banded blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Pacific and Indian ocean. This species reaches a length of 11 centimetres (4.3 in) SL.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Zostera marina (Eel Grass)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cymatogaster aggregata (Shiner)1
Hippocampus mohnikei (Japanese seahorse)1
Rhabdosargus sarba (Yellowfin bream)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
2Partitioning of food resources among Sillago japonica, Ditremma temmincki, Tridentiger trigonocephalus, Hippocampus japonicus and Petroscirtes breviceps in an eelgrass, Zostera marina, bed, Seok Nam Kwak, Sung-Hoi Huh & David W. Klumpp, Environmental Biology of Fishes 71: 353–364, 2004.
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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