Twospot blenny
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Twospot blenny eggs attach to the bottom with a threadlike sticky structure.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Twospot blenny
- Scientific name
- Ecsenius bimaculatus
- Japanese name
- ツースポットブレニー
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Ecsenius
Where the name “Twospot blenny” comes from
The genus name Ecsenius comes from a Greek word meaning immoderate.
FishBaseIt lives in the western Pacific, around the Philippines, neighboring northeastern Borneo and Malaysia.
How the Twospot blenny lives
Adults live on reef crests and slopes where corals grow densely. It is often alone around sponges and tunicates. Its larvae drift in the water and are often found in shallow coastal seas.
FishBaseBasic data
- Range
- The western Pacific: the Philippines and adjacent northeastern Borneo, Malaysia
Where the Twospot 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
- ツースポットブレニー
- 简体中文
- 双斑鳚
- 繁體中文
- 雙斑異齒䲁
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Jabingan totol-dua
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 — ツースポットブレニーChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase — Ecsenius bimaculatus, Twinspot coralblennyChecked: 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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