''Andamia amphibius'' is a species of
combtooth blenny
Combtooth blennies are blenniiformids; percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 genera. Combtooth blennies are found in tropic ...
found in the western central
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
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it is found in intertidal zone on exposed rocky shores of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to a depth of . It can breathe air and will move between rock pools at low tide. It is herbivorous.
It lays adhesive eggs which are attached to the rocks with a filament while the larvae are planktonic and are frequently encountered in shallow water.
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References
amphibius
Fish described in 1792
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