Longstriped blenny

Longstriped blenny
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Blenniidae
Genus:	Parablennius
Species:	P. rouxi
Binomial name
	Parablennius rouxi; (Cocco, 1833)
Synonyms
	Blennius rouxii Cocco, 1833;

The longstriped blenny (Parablennius rouxi) is a species of combtooth blenny found in the northeast Atlantic off Portugal, also known from the northern Mediterranean. This species reaches a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL.[2] The identity of the person honoured by the specific name of this species was not specified but is thought to be the French painter and naturalist Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (1792-1833).[3]

References

Williams, J.T.; Herler, J. & Kovacic, M. (2014). "Parablennius rouxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T194855A49090879. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T194855A49090879.en.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parablennius rouxi" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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 17 March 2019.

External links

Photos of Longstriped blenny on Sealife Collection

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[1] Williams, J.T.; Herler, J. & Kovacic, M. (2014). "Parablennius rouxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T194855A49090879. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T194855A49090879.en.

[2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parablennius rouxi" in FishBase. February 2013 version.

[ETYFish-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 17 March 2019.