#2230 · 🐟 fish

Mystery Blenny

🇳🇱 Incognito-slijmvis ·Parablennius incognitus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The mystery blenny ( Parablennius incognitos ) is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. 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. 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...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,795iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,795 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hans Bath in 1968 (58 years ago).