Chasmodes bosquianus

For other fish commonly called "striped blenny", see striped blenny (disambiguation).

Chasmodes bosquianus, the striped blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean, from New York to Florida.^[2] The specific name uses the suffix -ianus to denote "belonging to" and refers to the French naturalist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), whose notes Bernard Germain de Lacépède used to base his description of this blenny.^[3]

Striped blenny
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Blenniidae
Genus:	Chasmodes
Species:	C. bosquianus
Binomial name
Chasmodes bosquianus (Lacepède, 1800)
Synonyms
Blennius bosquianus Lacepède, 1800

Striped blennies can be very playful and curious in the home aquarium.

References

1. Williams, J.T.; Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Eytan, R.I.; Smith, M.L. (2014). "Chasmodes bosquianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T47140942A47461256. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T47140942A47461256.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Chasmodes bosquianus". FishBase. February 2013 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 March 2019.