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anoceanloverworld:

Blenny is a group of fish which lives on the sea floor. There are many types of blennies. Some of these fishes are very colorful and odd looking.

The above fish is a sailfin blenny. Look at the yellow horns. The blenny looks like a close relative of the dragons.

It’s a tessellated blenny.

It’s a Moyer’s scooter blenny – colorful, is not it?

Yellow watchman blenny.

This blue blenny looks like a cartoon character.

Redspot blenny.

The lawnmower blenny.

The curious blenny comes out to watch the diver.

Panamic fanged blenny

Yellow watchman blenny.

Yellow blenny.

Blue streamed blenny.

Look how diverse and colorful they are.share with friends to see this

They are all very good and wonderful friends, but there are a couple imposters in among them! The moyer’s scooter blenny is actually a dragonet (in the Callionymidae family) while the yellow watchman, yellow and blue streamed are all gobies (Gobiidae). I’m pretty certain the rest are in the suborder Blennioidei which actually is like 5 families but they are all just considered blennies because fish phylogeny is a mess. 

That last goby is actually a freshwater goby, a species of Sicyopterus! There are a whole bunch of amazingly colourful freshwater gobies and I adore them all. 

But I love all the small benthic fish with all my heart and yes we need more of them all the time forever.