- Mystery blenny
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Mystery blenny Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Blenniidae Genus: Parablennius Species: P. incognitus Binomial name Parablennius incognitus
Bath, 1968Synonyms 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]
References
- ^ a b c Synonyms of Parablennius incognitus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Parablennius incognitus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Black Sea Fishes Check List
- ^ Movchan Yu.V. (2009) The Fishes of Ukraine (Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Remarks). Zbirnyk prats Zoologichnogo muzeyu, 40: 47-87. [1] (in Ukrainian)
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