Yatabe blenny
Amazing fact
The Yatabe blenny has branching skin projections above its eyes, which are longer in males.
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The Yatabe blenny has branching skin projections above its eyes, which are longer in males.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yatabe blenny
- Scientific name
- Parablennius yatabei
- Japanese name
- イソギンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Parablennius
It peeks out with just its head from barnacles, shells or holes in rocks, watching what is around it.
It lives along Japanese coasts from Hokkaido to Kyushu and off the Korean Peninsula, China and Taiwan.
How the Yatabe blenny lives
When young, it sometimes settles on floating buoys and ropes.
公益財団法人 黒潮生物研究所Basic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Amami Oshima, southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Yatabe 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
- イソギンポ
- 简体中文
- 矶鳚
- 繁體中文
- 八部副鳚
- 한국어
- 청베도라치
- Português (Brasil)
- Blênio-japonês
- Русский
- Пиктибленниус Ятабея
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 — イソギンポChecked: 2026-11-04
- 公益財団法人 黒潮生物研究所 — イソギンポChecked: 2026-11-07
- 瀬戸内海環境保全協会 — 瀬戸内海魚類目録 イソギンポ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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