Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Tripterygiidae > Tripterygion > Tripterygion delaisiTripterygion delaisi (Black-faced blenny)Synonyms: Tripterygion atlanticus; Tripterygion delaisi delaisi; Tripterygion delaisi xanthosoma; Tripterygion xanthosoma; Trypterigion delaisi xanthosoma Language: Catalan; Croatian; French; German; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Portuguese; Slovenian The black-faced blenny (Tripterygion delaisi) is a species of fish in the family Tripterygiidae, the threefin blennies. It is widespread in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea from the English Channel to the coast of western Africa as far south as Senegal. This species is up to 6 centimeters long. It lives in crevices at depths of 5 to 40 meters. It feeds on micro-crustaceans. When threatened it freezes rather than swimming away, relying on its cryptic color patterning to disguise it against the substrate. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Trophic 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 ♦ 2Feeding habits, seasonal and ontogenetic diet shift of blacktail comber, Serranus atricauda (Pisces: Serranidae), from the Azores, north-eastern Atlantic, Telmo Morato, Ricardo Serrão Santos, José Pedro Andrade, Fisheries Research 49 (2000) 51-59 |
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
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