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Lipophrys pholis (Shanny; Shan)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lipophrys pholis, commonly known as Shanny, is a species of combtooth blenny. It matures at two years of age. Distributed in the Eastern Atlantic from the southern Norway to Morocco and Madeira, including the Mediterranean and the Balearics. Lipophrys pholis feed primarily on crustaceans, but also feed on other invertebrates and plants.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Gadus morhua (rock cod)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicometra fasciata[5]
Lecithochirium furcolabiatum[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Trophic relationships in an intertidal rockpool fish assemblage in the gulf of Cádiz (NE Atlantic), E.M. Velasco, M.C. Gómez-Cama, J.A. Hernando, M.C. Soriguer, Journal of Marine Systems 80 (2010) 248–252
♦ 3Diet preference reflects the ontogenetic shift in microhabitat use in Lipophrys pholis, N. M. MONTEIRO, S. M. QUINTEIRA, K. SILVA , M. N. VIEIRA AND V. C. ALMADA, Journal of Fish Biology (2005) 67, 102—113
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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