Ecsenius melarchus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Ecsenius
- Species
- Ecsenius melarchus
- Scientific Name
- Ecsenius melarchus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ecsenius melarchus
Ecsenius melarchus, known commonly as the yellow-eyed comb-tooth or the Java combtooth-blenny in Indonesia, is a species of combtooth blenny in the genus Ecsenius. It is found in coral reefs in the western Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of 5 centimetres. Blennies in this species primarily feed off of plants, including benthic algae and weeds, and are commercial aquarium fish. The specific name "melarchus" is Latin for "black anus", and refers to the black anal marking on the blennies in this species.
...Ecsenius melarchus in languages:
- English
- Yellow-eyed comb-tooth
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
