How To Use Blenny In A Sentence
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Stay a while and you might see a fierce territorial dispute between a pair of the shannies or other blenny species.
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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.
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In the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo), males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny.
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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.
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A curious little blenny-fish swarms in the numerous creeks which intersect the mangrove topes.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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Seen much less frequently than the tompot and shanny, the Yarrell's blenny is not actually a true blenny, but belongs to a related family.
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I poke around some more and manage to find a small blenny.
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There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrell's blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish.
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_Science Gossip_ he speaks of a pet blenny of his who was not only tame but musical.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
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It is the lake cusk or freshwater ling and could be utilized on our tables; but the wolffish, the rock blenny, the angler or goosefish, the skate, and twenty other kinds, are of great value as food.
Canada's Fishery Resources
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The blennies seem to be halfway between our shanny and tompot blenny; they have no crest on top of their heads but are big and quite colourful.
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Near the surface on the upper parts of the jetty piles are barnacles; the empty shells serve as shelters for small blennys.
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One exception has been reported in the triplefin blenny, Axoclinus nigricaudus, in which there was no difference in the relative investment into spermatogenesis between territorial and nonterritorial satellite males.
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It is the lake cusk or freshwater ling and could be utilized on our tables; but the wolffish, the rock blenny, the angler or goosefish, the skate, and twenty other kinds, are of great value as food.
Canada's Fishery Resources
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Some biologists thought that the finger-long red blenny (Parablennius ruber, also called a Portuguese blenny) lived exclusively in Portuguese waters.
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The eel-like fish, which can reach a length of 2m, is closely related to the blenny.
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They are in general oviparous, or egg-producing; but there are a few, such as the eel and the blenny, which are viviparous, or produce their young alive.
The Book of Household Management
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On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage.
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There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrels blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish.
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Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional.
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Should the fly alight at too great a distance for even a second leap, the blenny moves slowly towards it like a cat to its prey, or like a jumping spider; and, as soon as it gets within two or three inches of the insect, by a sudden spring contrives to pop its underset mouth directly over the unlucky victim.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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This is the yellow-faced blenny, often found in old tubeworm casts and even discarded shells.
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Near the edge of the sea you'll find fiddler crab, ragworm and shore crab, sea mice and tiny blenny fish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Out of its hole it resembles a tompot blenny in shape, but without the antlers and the smile.
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Some of the fishes are of a European type, such as the roach, the barbel, and the blenny; others are markedly
Easton's Bible Dictionary
