Animalia > Chordata > Ophidiiformes > Ophidiidae > Ophidion > Ophidion barbatum

Ophidion barbatum (Cusk eel; Snake blenny)

Synonyms: Ophidion barbatus; Ophidion congrus; Ophidion maculatum; Ophidium barbatum; Ophidium maculatum
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Wikipedia Abstract

Snake blenny (Ophidion barbatum) is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae. Widespread in the Eastern Atlantic from the southern England to Senegal and the northern Mediterranean Sea. It is a marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 25 cm long.
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Infraspecies

Ophidium barbatum var. barbatum

Prey / Diet

Alpheus glaber (red snapping shrimp)[1]
Processa canaliculata (processa shrimp)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ascaris ophidiibarbati <Unverified Name>[2]
Flexophora ophidii[2]
Helicometra fasciata[2]
Hemiurus luehei[2]
Lecithochirium rufoviride[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 2Gibson, 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