Summary ²

Petroscirtes breviceps, the striped poison-fang blenny mimic, striped fangblenny mimic, short-head sabretooth blenny, short-headed blenny, sabretooth blenny, or the black-banded blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Pacific and Indian ocean. This species reaches a length of 11 centimetres (4.3 in) SL.

Distribution ³

Indo-West Pacific: East Africa to Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) harum.koh, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/harumkoh/15877475897/
2. Adapted by harum.koh from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroscirtes_breviceps
3. (c) FishBase, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/21028714

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Animal Diversity Web
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Fish Database of Taiwan
• FishBase
• FishSource
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• VertNet
• World Register of Marine Species
• 日本のレッドデータ検索システム

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