| Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers. |
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| Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies. |
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| Checking carefully in nooks and crannies can often reveal tompot blennies and the occasional small scorpionfish. |
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| These blennies are cryptically colored or transparent, heavily scaled, and small. |
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| Depending on their size, they are home to spiny lobsters, arrow crabs and a wide assortment of blennies. |
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| The intertidal zone supplies fishermen with surf perch, cabezons, blennies, rock fish, pricklebacks, mussels and sea urchins. |
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| We noticed hawkfish, blennies, gobies and a variety of crustaceans, often camouflaged with bits of sponge and soft coral for protection. |
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| The wrymouths are slender, eel-like fishes, close relatives of the blennies but much larger. |
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| The butterfish, also known as the gunnel, is another species quite closely related to the blennies, though again not in the true blenny family. |
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| The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish. |
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| There are, however, often flatfish, cheeky blennies and numerous and inquisitive wrasse. |
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| Gobies and blennies combined make up a dominant portion of the small fish inhabiting benthic tropical reefs around the world. |
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| Not eels at all, the wolf eel are among the largest of a sub-order of small gunnels and blennies. |
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| While blennies are primarily marine fishes, some members of the family occur in estuaries or in fresh water, for example, in lakes in Italy. |
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| Little blennies popped in and out of holes, and eastern kelpfish and stinky groupers were much in evidence. |
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| Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies. |
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| Fish species include tompot and blackface blennies, leopard-spotted gobies and shannies. |
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| Then Yarrell's blennies and butterfish revealed themselves, along with long-spined scorpionfish in considerable numbers. |
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| Triplefin blennies are also unique among blennies in that they possess ctenoid scales. |
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| Tour seven aquariums, housing such species as Atlantic stingrays, sea horses, crabs, blennies, flounder, and puffer fish. |
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| Kelpfishes, klipfishes, and scaled blennies are among the threatened species. |
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| There are usually also a few pollack, wrasse and bream, and hordes of tompot blennies. |
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| Blennies have scaleless, elongated bodies, and comb-like, slender, close-set teeth, which can be either fixed or movable. |
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| Here we found gobies, blennies and butterfish hiding among the anemones. |
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| Within the wreck are conger, lobsters, edible and swimming crabs, packs of prawns, cuttlefish, topknots, flounders, scorpionfish and a host of blennies and shannies. |
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| Vertical cracks in the walls are well worth investigating as, in addition to the usual shrimps and blennies, conger eels can be found in the larger cracks. |
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| Shaped like eel, this small slender fish is another relative of blennies. |
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| Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels. |
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| In the beautiful elkhorn stands we found red-lipped blennies in three-color phases, octopus in the day, candy striped shrimp, lots of macro life, and scorpionfish. |
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| Triplefin blennies, however, as the name suggests, can be distinguished by their three dorsal fins, the first two composed of spines and the third composed of soft rays. |
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| In blennies the palatines are toothless, and the mouth not protractile. |
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| Other abundant nonfishery species were mud crabs, portly spider crab, blennies, pinfish, and oyster toadfish. |
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| Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body. |
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