Blennies

I have since upgraded to a 72 gallon “bowfront” with small fish including: blennies, gobies, clownfish, firefish, and black molies that serve as “dither fish”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are also several small sedentary species that primarily feed on invertebrates including sea horses (Family Syngnathidae), some blennies (Family Labrosomidae), and some gobies (Family Gobiidae). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some of the common resident species in the creeks throughout the year include smaller fish like mummichogs, killifish, sheepshead minnows, blennies, gobies, and silversides. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Later, I lay on a rock to dry, while Roger sneezed and clopped his way along the shallows in an attempt to catch one of the blue-finned blennies, with their pouting, vacant faces, which flipped from rock to rock with the speed of swallows. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

In the holes were the pouting blennies, which stared at you with their thick lips, giving their faces an expression of negroid insolence as they fluttered their fins at you. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

He came reluctantly, with many a backward glance at the blennies which still flicked across the sandy, sun-ringed floor of the bay. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

The "bulls" went into the schoolroom, and began to play about on the tables and benches, but the "blennies" kept to the shore. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

"Bulls" and "blennies" were the land and the sea in conflict; the division came naturally on every more or less serious occasion, and sometimes gave rise to regular battles. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

Some few fish, indeed, are truly viviparous; among them certain blennies and carps, in which the eggs hatch out entirely within the body of the mother. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

For, in the first place, there were none but very small fish in and about the rocks -- little wrasse, and blennies wherever the bottom was sandy, and tiny crabs scuffling in and out among the stones, where jelly-fish were opening and shutting and expanding their tentacles in search of minute food. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Species of pipefish, triplefins, blennies and gobies had fluorescent red patches, as did species of other common reef-dwellers, such as corals, a polychaete worm, feather stars and several sponges. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Scattered the blennies skimming the tide pool’s surface. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Weevers and blennies, and crabs, with oysters and scallops, and sea-weeds of all kinds -- a regular mixture if we go over a part that hasn't been much swept lately. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)