Short-head Sabretooth Blenny
Amazing fact
The short-head sabretooth blenny uses large fangs in its lower jaw to defend itself.
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The short-head sabretooth blenny uses large fangs in its lower jaw to defend itself.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Short-head Sabretooth Blenny
- Scientific name
- Petroscirtes breviceps
- Japanese name
- ニジギンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Petroscirtes
It lives along Japan's coasts from Hokkaido to the Ryukyus, and off Korea, Taiwan and in the Indo-West Pacific.
How the Short-head Sabretooth Blenny lives
Young fish have been found beneath floating Sargassum seaweed. It eats creatures living on the seabed, especially small crustaceans. It uses harbor ropes and empty cans as homes and can be seen swimming in groups nearby. Males care for the sticky eggs that females lay on the bottom.
Museums Victoria宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Hachijojima, Ogasawara Islands, Yakushima, Ryukyu Islands, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, the Indo-West Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Short-head Sabretooth 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
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 — ニジギンポChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ニジギンポChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Shorthead Sabretooth Blenny, Petroscirtes brevicepsChecked: 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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