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Alticus arnoldorum (Curtiss, 1938)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 14 - 15; Dorsal soft rays (total): 22 - 24; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 26 - 27.

Common Names

  • Leaping rockskipper , English , UK
  • Pacific leaping blenny , English , Micronesia
  • Pacific leaping blenny , English , USA

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Blenniiformes

    Family: Blenniidae

    Genus: Alticus

    Species: Alticus arnoldorum (Curtiss, 1938)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Pacific Ocean: Marianas to the Society Islands, south to Samoa and the Cook Islands.

    • Biology

    Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Found in moist shaded pockets of pitted limestone in the spray zone above the water line (Ref. 34765). Leaps from hole to hole when disturbed (Ref. 34765). Feeds on filamentous algae (Ref. 89972). Oviparous (Ref. 205). Eggs are demersal and adhesive (Ref. 205), and are attached to the substrate via a filamentous, adhesive pad or pedestal (Ref. 94114). Larvae are planktonic, often found in shallow, coastal waters (Ref. 94114).

    Habitat

    associated