Striped Blenny
Chasmodes bosquianus (Lacepède, 1800)
Striped Blenny: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/5373
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Striped Blennies are especially fond of oyster beds, but can also be found in patches of eelgrass. Although common in the middle and lower Chesapeake Bay, they are secretive and not easily detected.

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Feeds on small crustaceans and mollusks. Preyed upon by larger fish such as bluefish and rockfish.

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For other fish commonly called "striped blenny", see striped blenny (disambiguation).

Striped blenny
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Chasmodes
Species:
C. bosquianus
Binomial name
Chasmodes bosquianus
(Lacepède, 1800)
Synonyms
  • Blennius bosquianus Lacepède, 1800
Striped blennies can be very playful and curious in the home aquarium.

Chasmodes bosquianus, the striped blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean, from New York to Florida.[2] The specific name uses the suffix -ianus to denote "belonging to" and refers to the French naturalist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), whose notes Bernard Germain de Lacépède used to base his description of this blenny.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Williams, J.T.; Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Eytan, R.I.; Smith, M.L. (2014). "Chasmodes bosquianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T47140942A47461256. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T47140942A47461256.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Chasmodes bosquianus". FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 March 2019.


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