Jewelled blenny
Amazing fact
The jewelled blenny has branching, skin-like projections above its eyes and on the back of its head.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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The jewelled blenny has branching, skin-like projections above its eyes and on the back of its head.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Jewelled blenny
- Scientific name
- Salarias fasciatus
- Japanese name
- ヤエヤマギンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Blenniidae
- Genus
- Salarias
It lives in warm seas from the Ryukyu Islands south through the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.
A row of small blue spots runs along the line on its side, called the lateral line.
How the Jewelled blenny lives
Its main food is algae. It often sits still on the base of a coral reef. When approached, it quickly hides in a hole or crevice.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- South of the Ryukyu Islands and tropical Indo-West Pacific
Where the Jewelled 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
- ヤエヤマギンポ
- 简体中文
- 细纹凤鳚
- 繁體中文
- 細紋唇齒鳚
- Français
- Blennie rayée
- Deutsch
- Juwelen-Felshüpfer
- Português (Brasil)
- Blênio-marmoreado
- Italiano
- Bavosa fasciata
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Jabingan putih
- Русский
- Многополосая салария
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 — ヤエヤマギンポChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヤエヤマギンポChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヤエヤマギンポ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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