combtooth blenny

Definitions of combtooth blenny
  1. noun
    small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks
    synonyms: blenny
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    types:
    Blennius pholis, shanny
    European scaleless blenny
    Molly Miller, Scartella cristata
    inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
    type of:
    blennioid, blennioid fish
    elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
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