blennies

I have since upgraded to a 72 gallon “bowfront” with small fish including: blennies, gobies, clownfish, firefish, and black molies that serve as “dither fish”.

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There are also several small sedentary species that primarily feed on invertebrates including sea horses (Family Syngnathidae), some blennies (Family Labrosomidae), and some gobies (Family Gobiidae).

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Some of the common resident species in the creeks throughout the year include smaller fish like mummichogs, killifish, sheepshead minnows, blennies, gobies, and silversides.

North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007

Later, I lay on a rock to dry, while Roger sneezed and clopped his way along the shallows in an attempt to catch one of the blue-finned blennies, with their pouting, vacant faces, which flipped from rock to rock with the speed of swallows.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

In the holes were the pouting blennies, which stared at you with their thick lips, giving their faces an expression of negroid insolence as they fluttered their fins at you.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

He came reluctantly, with many a backward glance at the blennies which still flicked across the sandy, sun-ringed floor of the bay.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

The "bulls" went into the schoolroom, and began to play about on the tables and benches, but the "blennies" kept to the shore.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

"Bulls" and "blennies" were the land and the sea in conflict; the division came naturally on every more or less serious occasion, and sometimes gave rise to regular battles.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

The "bulls" went into the schoolroom, and began to play about on the tables and benches, but the "blennies" kept to the shore.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

"Bulls" and "blennies" were the land and the sea in conflict; the division came naturally on every more or less serious occasion, and sometimes gave rise to regular battles.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911