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Ecsenius midas Starck, 1969 
AphiaID: 219271

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Blenniidae (Family) > Salariinae (Subfamily) > Ecsenius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ecsenius McCulloch, 1923
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English midas blenny  [details]
English Persian blenny  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
Mauritius [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Description: Found at depths of at least 30 m. During its orange-yellow phase, it is observed to school with @Pseudanthias squamipinnis@ which it resembles in color. Reported to feed on zooplankton. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219271
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-06-18 06:08:16Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Ecsenius midas Starck, 1969. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219271 on 2013-05-25
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