Whitespotted Blenny, Salarias alboguttatus Kner 1867

Other Names: White-spotted Blenny

A Whitespotted Blenny, Salarias alboguttatus, in Noumea, New Caledonia, April 2016. Source: d_kluza / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

Summary:

A small greyish to brownish blenny with small white spots on the head, and irregular rows of oval spots or dashes and 7-8 indistinct brownish bars on sides. Breeding males have a dark head with a bright blue spot on either side of the throat.

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Dianne J. Bray, Salarias alboguttatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Mar 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1086

Whitespotted Blenny, Salarias alboguttatus Kner 1867

More Info

Distribution	Northern Great Barrier Reef to One Tree Island, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the west-central Pacific: Kyushu, Japan, to Samoa, including the Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Often seen on the top of large Porites coral heads.
Feeding	Detritivore - uses its teeth to comb small particles of organic material from turf algae.
Species Citation	Salarias alboguttatus Kner 1867, Siboga-Expéditie Report 56: 16, pl. 4(4). Type locality: Samoa.
Author	Dianne J. Bray
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Whitespotted Blenny, Salarias alboguttatus Kner 1867

References

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