blenny

How To Use blenny In A Sentence

• Stay a while and you might see a fierce territorial dispute between a pair of the shannies or other blenny species.
• I bobbed and thrashed about on the surface of the Pacific, 20 miles off Ventura, CA like a tompot blenny with a ruptured swim-bladder.
• In the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo), males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices.
• The viviparous species are by no means so prolific; yet the blenny brings forth two or three hundred at a time, which commence sporting together round their parent the moment they have come into existence. The Book of Household Management
• There are the Mediterranean tompot blenny, the bashful yellow-faced or striped blenny, and the tiny Caribbean secretary blenny, giving office staff a bad name.
• Endemic fish include the Malpelo barnacle-blenny Acanthenblemaria stephensi, Malpelo wrasse Halichoeres malpelo, pretty goby Chriolepis lepidotus, Rubinoff's triplefin Axoclinus rubinoffi and twinspot triplefin Lepidonectes bimaculata. Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia
• Fish life generally is a bit sparse in the North Sea, but there are several relatively unusual species that favour this cooler water - you may come across lumpsucker, Norwegian topknot, yarrell's blenny and the spectacular wolf-fish.
• The shanny, or common blenny, is normally shy and quite difficult to spot with his excellent camouflage, but during breeding his colour darkens to grey or black, while the lips go white and he becomes bolder in line with his parental duties.
• Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny.
• The shanny, occasionally known as the common blenny, lives on the shore and in very shallow water, so it will usually only be seen by divers at the beginning or end of a shore dive.