Ecsenius pictus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Ecsenius
- Species
- Ecsenius pictus
- Scientific Name
- Ecsenius pictus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ecsenius pictus
Ecsenius pictus, known commonly as the white-lined comb-tooth in Indonesia and the pictus blenny in Micronesia, is a species of combtooth blenny family Blenniidae.
The white-lined comb-tooth is found in coral reefs in the central Indo-Pacific area and especially in Indonesia, Philippines and Solomon Islands.
It can reach a maximum length of 5 cm.
Blennies in this species feed primarily off of plants, including benthic algae and weeds, and are commercial aquarium fish. The specific name "pictus" means "painted" in Latin, and refers to the species' unusual colour pattern.
...Ecsenius pictus in languages:
- Czech
- slizoun pestrý
- English
- Pictus blenny
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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











































