Mystery blenny

Mystery blenny
Mystery blenny
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Parablennius
Species: P. incognitus
Binomial name
Parablennius incognitus
Bath, 1968
Synonyms
  • Blennius incognitus (Bath, 1968)[1]
  • Blennius ponticus incognitus (Bath, 1968)[1]
  • Pictiblennius incognitus (Bath, 1968)[1]

Mystery blenny, Parablennius incognitus, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] It was first named by Bath in 1968, and can reach a maximum length of 5.8 centimetres.[2]

Parablennius incognitus

References

  1. ^ a b c Synonyms of Parablennius incognitus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ a b Parablennius incognitus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ^ Black Sea Fishes Check List
  4. ^ Movchan Yu.V. (2009) The Fishes of Ukraine (Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Remarks). Zbirnyk prats Zoologichnogo muzeyu, 40: 47-87. [1] (in Ukrainian)