Author: (Cocco, 1833)

Parablennius rouxi (Cocco, 1833)

Diagnosis: dorsal finrays XII + 21-22; anal finrays II + 23; pectoral finrays 14; pelvic finrays I + 3. Colour: body white with dark brown stripe running from eye to base of caudal fin. Spawning males with high orange orbital tentacles, enlarged spiny dorsal fin, a green spot at beginning of dorsal fin, bulb glands on spiny anal finrays and club-like glands at end of soft anal and dorsal finrays. Size: to 8 cm.

Habitat: from shallow littoral zone to beyond influence of water movements at depths down to 42 m; on light rocks or pebbles without algae cover (shallow biotopes) and on secondary hard bottoms of coralligenous origin (deep biotopes). Behaviour: males live in narrow piddock holes; they court by nodding, jumping out of hole and back again and swimming in a vertical position. Rivals are threatened by yawning, lateral display and circling, and are attacked by ramming and biting. Food: periphyton, harpacticoids and algae. Reproduction: May-July. Attracted females spawn in resident hole of a male which guards eggs from several females.

Distribution: northern Mediterranean and off Portugal.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Gobioidei
Family Blenniidae
Genus Parablennius
Species Parablennius rouxi

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Parablennius rouxi (Cocco, 1833)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Parablennius rouxi (Cocco, 1833)

Synonyms:

Blennius rouxi Cocco, 1833, Ciorn. Sc. Lett. Arti Sicilia, 42:11, pl. 9 (fig. 1). No type material.
Blennius rouxi: Bonaparte, 1832-1841, 3, fig. Günther, 1861, 3: 217 Steindachner, 1868: 675 Moreau, 1881, 2: 120-121 Kolombatovic, 1882: 32-33 Steindachner & Kolombatovic, 1883: 1193-1194, pl. 2 (fig. 4) Facciolà, 1883-1886, 6: 329-332 Kolombatovic, 1891-1892: 14-15 Carus, 1893, 2: 695 Gruvel & Chabanaud, 1937: 29 Norman, 1943: 801 Soljan, 1948: 258, 1 fig. Lozano Rey, 1960: 154-156, fig. 65 Tortonese, 1963: 178 Bini, 1968, 6: 143, 1 fig. (in colour) Heymer & Zander, 1975: 311, fig. 1-12 Heymer & Ferret, 1976: 121-141 ,16 fig. Almeida & Gomes, 1978: 12, pl. 3 , fig. 8 (Portugal).
Parablennius rouxi: Bath, 1977: 198, 200, fig. 51.

Common names:

babica kraljica [Hr]

Almeida, A.; Gomes, J. A. 1978. Quelques Poissons nouveaux pour la faune du Portugal (Apogonidae; Blenniidae; Tripterygiidae). Mem. Mus. do Mar, Cascais, Ser. Zool. 1 (2): 1-23, 3 fig. 4 pl.

Bath, H. 1977. Revision der Blenniini (Pisces - Blenniidae). Senckenbergiana Biol, 57 (1976) (4/6): 167-234, 78 fig.

Bini, G. 1967-1972. Atlante dei pesci delle Coste italiane. Mondo Sommerso, Milano, 9 vol: I, 1967, Leptocardi, Ciclostomi, Selaci, 206 pp., 66 fig. + 64 col. fig. II, 1971, Osteitti (Acipenseriformi, Clupeiformi, Mictofiformi, Anguilliformi), 300 pp., 73 col. fig. III, 1970, Notacantiformi . . . Zeiformi, 229 pp., 34 fig. + 63 col. fig. IV, 1968, Perciformi (Mugiloidei, Percoidei), 163 pp., 34 fig. + 49 col. fig. V, 1968, Perciformi (Percoidei), 175 pp., 22 fig. + 56 col. fig. VI, 1968, Perciformi (Trichiuroidei . . . Blennioidei), 177 pp., 48 fig + 57 col. fig. VII,1969, Perciformi (Ofidioidei . . . Dactilopteroidei), 196 pp., 57 fig. + 59 col. fig. VIII,1968, Pleuronettiformi, Echeniformi, Gobioesociformi, Tetraodontiformi, Lofiformi, 164 pp., 34 + 63 fig. IX, 1972, Introduzione. Parte generale. Aggiornamenti. Indici. 176 p.

Bonaparte, C. L. 1832-1841. Iconografia della Fauna italica per le quattro classi degli Animali Vertebrati, tomo III, Pesci, Roma, without pagination, 75 puntate (in 30 fasc.), 78 pl. 1832: Fasc. I (Puntate 1-6), 2 pl.; 1833: II-V (pp. 7-28),12 pl.; 1834: VI-XI (pp. 29-58), 12 pl.; 1835: XII-XIV (pp. 59-79), 12 pl.; 1836: XV-XVIII (pp. 80-93), 10 pl.; 1837: XIX-XXI (pp. 94-103, pp. 105-109), 5 pl.; 1838: XXII-XXIII (pp. 104, pp. 110-120), 2 pl.; 1839: XXIV-XXVI (pp. 121-135), 8 pl.; 1840: XXVII-XXIX (pp. 136-154), 10 pl.; 1841: XXX (pp. 155-160), 5 pl.

Carus, J. V. 1893. Vertebrata. 1. class. Pisces: pp. 498-711, In: Prodromus faunae Mediterraneae sive Descriptio Animalium Maris Mediterranei incolarum quam comparata silva rerum quatenus innotuit adiectis locis et nominibus vulgaribus. . . Stuttgart, 1889-1893, 2: ix+854 pp.

Cocco, A. 1833a. Su di alcuni pesci de'mari di Messina. Giorn. Sci. Lett. Arti Sicilia 42: 9-21, pl. (also publ. in Maurolico, 2: 236-244).

Facciolà, L. 1883-1886. I Blennii del Mar di Messina. Mem. Soc. tosc. Sci. nat., Pisa, 6: 273-342.

Günther, A. 1861b. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. 3. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. London, xxv+586 pp.

Gruvel, A.; Chabanaud, P. 1937. Missions A. Gruvel dans le canal de Suez. II. Poissons. Mém. Inst. Égypt., 35: 1-30., 29 fig.

Heymer A.; Zander, C. D. 1975. Morphologische und okologische Untersuchungen an Blennius rouxi Cocco, 1833 (Pisces Perciformes, Blenniidae). Vie et Milieu, 25 (2) A: 311-333, 12 fig.

Heymer, A.; Perret, C. A. de 1976. Zur Ethologie des Mittelmeer-Schleimenfisches Blennius rouxi Cocco, 1833. Z. Tierpsychol., 41: 121-141.

Kolombatovic, J. 1882. Fische welche in den Gewässern von Spalato beobachtet und überhaupt im Adriatischen Meere registriert wurden. Spalato.

Kolombatovic, J. 1892a. Mackulje (Blenniini) Spljetskog Pomorskog Okruzja u Dalmaciji. Godisnje Izovjesce C.K. Velike Realke u Splitu za Skolskugodinu, 1891-1892: 3-24.

Lozano y Rey, L. 1960. Peces fisodistos. Tercera parte. Subseries Toracicos (Ordenes Equeneiformes y Gobiformes), Pediculados y Asimetricos. Mems R. Acad. Cienc. exact. fis. nat. Madr., ser.: Cienc. nat., 14: 613 pp., 173 fig., 7 pl.

Moreau, E. 1881-1891. Histoire naturelle des poissons de la France, Paris, I, 1881: pp. I-VII+1-480, fig. 1-82; II, 1881: pp. 1-572, fig. 83-145; III, 1881: pp. 1-697, fig. 146-220; Suppl., 1891: pp. 1-144, fig. 221-227.

Norman, J. R. 1943. Notes on the blennioid fishes. I. A provisional synopsis of the genera of the family Blenniidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (11)10 (72): pp. 793-812.

Soljan, T. 1948. Fauna i flora jadrana. 1. Ribe Inst. Oceanogr. Ribarst. Jugoslavia. Zagreb, Hrvatske, 437 pp., 1350 fig.

Steindachner, F. 1868a. Ichthyologischer Bericht über eine nach Spanien und Portugal untermommene Reise. Übersicht der Meeresfische an den Kusten Spanien's und Portugal's. Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien., 57 (1): 351-424, 667-738, 6 pl.

Steindachner, F.; Kolombatovic, G. 1884. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische derAdria. Sber. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 88(4): 1193-1202, 2 pl.

Tortonese, E. 1963c. Elenco riveduto dei Leptocardi, Ciclostomi, Pesci cartilagine e ossei del mare mediterraneo. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Giacomo Doria, 74: pp. 156-185.

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