In the spotlight
Le saviez-vous ? Les coulisses de la reproduction à Nausicaá en 2025
Poissons, crevettes, requins, les animaux qui se reproduisent ou sont élevés à Nausicaá rejoignent les espaces d'exposition.
Identity card
Jewelled blenny
- Scientific name:
- Salarias fasciatus
- Family:
- Blenniidae
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Year of description:
- Bloch, 1786
- IUCN Status:
- Least Concern
- Distribution:
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Tropical Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, East Africa to the Tuamotu Islands, north to southern Japan, south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.
- Habitat:
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Shallow coral reefs, lagoons, rocky areas covered with seaweed. Between 0 and 8 m.
- Size:
10 cm, up to 14 cm.
- Diet:
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Omnivorous, seaweed eater.
