| 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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| Stay a while and you might see a fierce territorial dispute between a pair of the shannies or other blenny species. |
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| There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrels blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish. |
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| Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny. |
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| Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional. |
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| Seen much less frequently than the tompot and shanny, the Yarrell's blenny is not actually a true blenny, but belongs to a related family. |
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| I bobbed and thrashed about on the surface of the Pacific, 20 miles off Ventura, CA like a tompot blenny with a ruptured swim-bladder. |
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| Out of its hole it resembles a tompot blenny in shape, but without the antlers and the smile. |
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| In the peacock blenny, males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices. |
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| This is the yellow-faced blenny, often found in old tubeworm casts and even discarded shells. |
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| On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage. |
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| The eel-like fish, which can reach a length of 2m, is closely related to the blenny. |
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| There are the Mediterranean tompot blenny, the bashful yellow-faced or striped blenny, and the tiny Caribbean secretary blenny, giving office staff a bad name. |
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| There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrell's blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish. |
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| The mimic's drive to approach other fish, for example, is a specialization of a more general pattern, observable in non-mimicking relatives of the blenny, involving searching for food on suitable surfaces. |
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| Tail portions were used for naked goby and skilletfish samples, and epaxial muscle tissue was used for freckled blenny. |
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| Live copepods are popular among hobbyists who are attempting to keep particularly difficult species such as the mandarin dragonet or scooter blenny. |
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| Fish species found in the islands include many species of shark, ray, moray eel, bream, jack, grunt, scorpionfish, triggerfish, grouper, goby, and blenny. |
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