Rotund Blenny, Omobranchus rotundiceps (Macleay 1881)

A Rotund Blenny, Omobranchus rotundiceps, at Shelly Beach, Manly, New South Wales. Source: Sylke Rohrlach / Flickr. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:

A species of combtooth blenny. The subspecies Omonbranchus rotundiceps rotundiceps is found only in Australia.

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Bray, D.J. 2025, Omobranchus rotundiceps in Fishes of Australia, accessed 05 Jun 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4748

Rotund Blenny, Omobranchus rotundiceps (Macleay 1881)

More Info

Distribution	Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Sydney, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, east-Indo-west-central Pacific. Found in coastal, estuarine and rocky habitats.
Feeding	Herbivore - feeds on algae.
Species Citation	Petroscirtes rotundiceps Macleay, 1881, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(1): 9. Type locality: Port Jackson, New South Wales.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Rotund Blenny, Omobranchus rotundiceps (Macleay 1881)

References

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De Vis, C.W. 1884. New fishes in the Queensland Museum. No. 4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 9(3): 685-698 (described as Salarias furcatus, type locality St Helena, Moreton Bay, Queensland)

De Vis, C.W. 1886. On a lizard and three species of Salarias etc. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 2: 56-60 (described as Salarias furtivus, type locality Moreton Bay, Queensland)

Gibbs, S., Hundt, P., Nelson, A., Egan, J., Tongnunui, P. & Simons, A. 2018. Systematics of the combtooth blenny clade Omobranchus (Blenniidae: Omobranchini), with notes on early life history stages. Zootaxa 4369(2): 270-280. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4369.2.7

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Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3)

Larson, H.K. & Williams, R.S. 1997. Darwin Harbour fishes: a survey and annotated checklist. pp. 339-380 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp.

Macleay, W.J. 1881. Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(1): 1-138 pls 1-2 (described as both Petroscirtes fasciolatus and P. rotundiceps, type locality Port Jackson, New South Wales)

Neira, F.J., Miskiewicz, A.G. & Trnski, T. 1998. Larvae of temperate Australian fishes: laboratory guide for larval fish identification. Nedlands, Western Australia : University of Western Australia press 474 pp.

Ogilby, J.D. 1886. Catalogue of the Fishes of New South Wales, with their principal synonyms. Sydney : Government Printer 67 pp. (as Petroscirtes macleayi, new name for Petroscirtes fasciolatus Macleay, 1881)

Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen & R.C. Steene. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p.

Springer, V.G. 1972. Synopsis of the tribe Omobranchini with descriptions of three new genera and two new species (Pisces : Blenniidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 130: 1-31 http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.130

Springer, V.G. & Gomon, M.F. 1975. Revision of the blenniid fish genus Omobranchus with descriptions of three new species and notes on other species of the tribe Omobranchini. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 177: 1-135 figs 1-52 http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.177

Whitley, G.P. 1959. Ichthyological snippets. The Australian Zoologist 12(4): 310-323 figs 1-3 (described as Graviceps angelus, type locality Heron Island, Capricorn Group, Queensland)