Forktail blenny
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Forktail blennies have very large canine teeth in the lower jaw and are venomous.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Forktail blenny
- Scientific name
- Meiacanthus atrodorsalis
- Japanese name
- オウゴンニジギンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Meiacanthus
How the Forktail blenny lives
It lives on coral reef and rocky slopes in shallow water with good water flow.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Diet
- Zooplankton and small benthic invertebrates
- Range
- Western Pacific Ocean
Where the Forktail 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
- オウゴンニジギンポ
- 简体中文
- 稀棘鳚
- 繁體中文
- 金鰭稀棘鳚
- Français
- Blennie à bande noire
- Português (Brasil)
- Blênio-cardinal-do-Pacífico
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Sampiran srigunting
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 — オウゴンニジギンポChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — オウゴンニジギンポChecked: 2026-11-07
- 粟国村 — オウゴンニジギンポ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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