Dusky blenny
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The dusky blenny makes its home mainly among branching corals.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Dusky blenny
- Scientific name
- Atrosalarias fuscus
- Japanese name
- インドカエルウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Atrosalarias
It lives on coral reefs from the Ryukyu Islands and southern Taiwan to the tropical western Pacific.
Basic data
- Diet
- Algae
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan and tropical western Pacific
Where the Dusky blenny has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- インドカエルウオ
- 简体中文
- 暗褐高鳍鳚
- 繁體中文
- 暗褐高鰭䲁
- Français
- Blennie coraline d'Érythrée
- Português (Brasil)
- Blênio-arisco
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Jabingan hitam
- Русский
- Тёмная атросалария
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — インドカエルウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — インドカエルウオChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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