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
  • Blennius ponticus incognitus Bath, 1968
  • Pictiblennius incognitus (Bath, 1968)

The mystery blenny (Parablennius incognitos) 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. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parablennius incognitus" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  2. ↑ Black Sea Fishes Check List Archived 2011-01-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Movchan Yu.V. (2009) The Fishes of Ukraine (Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Remarks). Zbirnyk prats Zoologichnogo muzeyu, 40: 47-87. (in Ukrainian)


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