Ecsenius kurti: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Ecsenius
- Species
- Ecsenius kurti
- Scientific Name
- Ecsenius kurti
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ecsenius kurti
Ecsenius kurti, Kurt's coralblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny in the genus Ecsenius. It is found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean; it is endemic to the Cuyo Islands of the Philippines. It can reach a maximum length of 3.5 centimetres. Blennies in this species feed primarily off of plants, including benthic algae and weeds. The specific name honours Kurt A. Bruwelheide, who was a museum specialist in the Division of Fishes of the National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C.), for his work on the early part Springer's revision of the genus Ecsenius and who photographed many of the types of the species Springer described.
...Ecsenius kurti in languages:
- English
- Kurt's coralblenny
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ecsenius aequalis
- Ecsenius alleni
- Ecsenius aroni
- Ecsenius australianus
- Ecsenius axelrodi
- Ecsenius bandanus
- Ecsenius bathi
- Ecsenius bicolor
- Ecsenius bimaculatus
- Ecsenius caeruliventris
- Ecsenius collettei
- Ecsenius dentex
- Ecsenius dilemma
- Ecsenius fijiensis
- Ecsenius fourmanoiri
- Ecsenius frontalis
- Ecsenius gravieri
- Ecsenius isos
- Ecsenius kurti
- Ecsenius lineatus
- Ecsenius lividanalis
- Ecsenius lubbocki
- Ecsenius mandibularis
- Ecsenius melarchus
- Ecsenius midas
- Ecsenius minutus
- Ecsenius monoculus
- Ecsenius nalolo
- Ecsenius namiyei
- Ecsenius niue
- Ecsenius oculatus
- Ecsenius oculus
- Ecsenius ops
- Ecsenius opsifrontalis
- Ecsenius pardus
- Ecsenius paroculus
- Ecsenius pictus
- Ecsenius polystictus
- Ecsenius portenoyi
- Ecsenius prooculis
- Ecsenius pulcher
- Ecsenius randalli
- Ecsenius schroederi
- Ecsenius sellifer
- Ecsenius shirleyae
- Ecsenius springeri
- Ecsenius stictus
- Ecsenius stigmatura
- Ecsenius taeniatus
- Ecsenius tessera
- Ecsenius tigris
- Ecsenius tricolor
- Ecsenius trilineatus
- Ecsenius yaeyamaensis