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Tube/Pike/Flag Blennies/Chaenopsidae,
/The Conscientious Marine Aquarist
Blennioids
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Genus Aspidontus:
Genus Atrosalarias: Monotypic (one species).
Genus Meiacanthus:
Genus Petroscirtes: |
Petroscirtes breviceps (Valenciennes 1836), the Shorthead
Sabretooth Blenny or Striped Poison-Fang Blenny Mimic. A mimic of
Meiacanthus grammistes (see above) (most easily told apart by
Petroscirtes underslung mouth). Indo-West Pacific; East Africa to
the Micronesians. To 11 cm. Can and will bite if handled. N.
Sulawesi pic. | 
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Petroscirtes mitratus Ruppell 1830, the Floral or High Fin
Blenny. Indo-Pacific; Red Sea to Samoa. To a little under three
inches in length. This two inch one photographed in the Maldives. | 
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Genus Plagiotremus: |
Plagiotemus tapeinosoma (Bleeker 1857), the Piano Fangblenny.
Indo-Pacific; Red Sea to the Line Islands. To five and a half inches in
length. Some in the upper Red Sea and Queensland who bit me. | 
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Genus Ecsenius:
Triplefins, Family Tripterygiidae: |
Helcogramma gymnauchen (Weber 1909), the Yellow-Lip Triplefin.
Tropical West Pacific; Indonesia, PNG, Northern Australia. To 4 cm.
Lives on reefs, algal covered areas, feeding on tiny invertebrates.
N. Sulawesi pic of one on a Plerogyra "bubble" with a copepod
parasite on its back. |  
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Helcogramma striata Hansen 1986, the Tropical Striped Triplefin.
Western Pacific; Southern Japan, Philippines to Australia, Solomon
Islands. To about an inch and three quarters length. Found commonly
on corals and sponges. This one off of Pulau Redang, Malaysia. | 
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