- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Blennies, Damselfishes and Allies
- ›Blennies
- ›Triplefins
- ›Tripterygiinae
- ›Lepidoblennius
Western Jumping Blenny
Lepidoblennius marmoratus
The western jumping blenny (Lepidoblennius marmoratus) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Lepidoblennius. It was first described by William John Macleay in 1878.
From the article Western jumping blenny on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The western jumping blenny has a body which is slightly compressed and has a steep snout and a naked head, with no scales. The body is coloured greyish to greenish-grey paler underneath. It is marked with dark vertical lines on the head, lines of small dark spots on the dorsal, caudal and pectoral fins and there are irregular blotches along the flanks. It grows to a maximum standard length of 11.4 centimetres (4.5 in). The western jumping blenny is identified from the allopatric but congeneric eastern jumping blenny by having a deep incision between the last spine of the first dorsal fin and the first spine of the second dorsal fin, as well as having two spines in the anal fin while the eastern has none.
Range & habitat
The western jumping blenny is endemic to Australia where it occurs on the west and south coasts from 32° south in Western Australia to Kangaroo Island off South Australia. Its northernmost locality is the Swan River.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
In human culture
William John Macleay described this species in 1878 with a type locality of King George Sound, Western Australia. The generic name means "scaled blenny" while the specific name marmoratus means "marbled" in reference to the yellowish colour mottled with black.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology and taxonomy”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lepidoblennius marmoratus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 446157.