Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 40 - 44; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 38 - 42. Caudal rounded, somewhat elevated dorsally; pectorals small and rounded (Ref. 6885). Color variable- from green through brown to red; dark dots spaced in a broken line along midside of body, sometimes also light spots; narrow dark line down and back from eye to operculum, sometimes through eye; some fresh specimens with a silvery line margined with orange and black from middle of maxillary through lower part of eye to nape and opercle (Ref. 6885).

Common Names

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Sideplettet tangspræl , Danish , Denmark

Pen-point blenny , English , Canada

Penpoint gunnel , English , Canada

Penpoint gunnel , English , USA

Penpoint gunnel , English , Alaska

Penpoint gunnel , English , Global

Suur silekõht , Estonian , Estonia

黃色無足鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

黄色无足鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Lêlethen , Salish (Saanich) , Canada

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Zoarcoidei

Family: Pholidae

Genus: Apodichthys

Species: Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854

Climate Zone

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Temperate

Location

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Eastern Pacific: Kodiak Island, Alaska to Santa Barbara Island, southern California, USA.

Biology

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Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Found in intertidal areas, especially in tide pools (Ref. 2850). May remain out of the water under rocks or seaweeds (Ref. 31184). Feeds on small crustaceans and mollusks (Ref. 6885). Pairs are found coiled around egg masses (Ref. 4925). Breathes air when out of water (Ref. 31184).

Habitat

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demersal