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Longstriped blenny

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2333628 ↗
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The longstriped blenny (Parablennius rouxi), also called the striped blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the northeast Atlantic off Portugal, also known from the northern Mediterranean. This species reaches a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL. The identity of the person honoured by the specific name of this species was not specified but is thought to be the French painter and naturalist Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (1792-1833).

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“Longstriped blenny” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Longstriped, blenny and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2333628. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1792 and 1833.

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This entry incorporates text from “Longstriped blenny” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.