FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Threadless blenny
Meiacanthus anema
Blenniidae, Blenniinae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 7.2 cm
- Body shape
- Elongated
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 14 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in Indonesia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
More about the species
Description
Adults occur in estuaries and freshwater habitats, frequently where mangrove are abundant. Presence of toxic buccal glands associated with the grooved canines. This is avoided by predators which even reject it unharmed if they try to ingest it. Oviparous. Eggs are demersal and adhesive, and are attached to the substrate via a filamentous, adhesive pad or pedestal. Larvae are planktonic, often found in shallow, coastal waters. Both fang and venom gland is present.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Meicanthus anema
- Petroscirtes anema
- Petroscirtes grammistes
- Petroskirtes anema
In other languages
- Freshwater fangblenny
Articles
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