Mystery blenny
| Mystery blenny | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Blenniidae |
| Genus: | Parablennius |
| Species: | P. incognitus |
| Binomial name | |
| Parablennius incognitus (Bath, 1968) | |
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The Mystery blenny, Parablennius incognitus, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.[1] It is widespread in Madeira, the Canary Islands and Limbe, Cameroon, off Iberian Peninsula to all parts of the Mediterranean including Morocco, the Sea of Marmara, and Black Sea.[2] In the Black Sea it was first found in Ukraine in 2002 near the Southern Coast of Crimea, and next year it was numerously registered in the coastal waters from Sevastopol to the Cape Fiolent.[3] It can reach a maximum length of 5.8 centimetres (2.3 in) SL.[1]
Parablennius incognitus
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parablennius incognitus" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ↑ Black Sea Fishes Check List
- ↑ Movchan Yu.V. (2009) The Fishes of Ukraine (Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Remarks). Zbirnyk prats Zoologichnogo muzeyu, 40: 47-87. (in Ukrainian)
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