Salarias fasciatus
Banded blenny | Banded Jewelled-blenny | Barred Blenny | Jewelled Blenny | Jewelled Rockskipper | Lineated Blenny | Lined Blenny | Painted Blenny
Distribution
Tropical Indo-Pacific
Description
Distinctly fatter body than head, and large white spots on breast. Body with a series of dark bands often containing white spots, and fine iridescent blue spots on upper rear body. Crossosalarias macrospilus (Triplespot Blenny) has black blotch at front base of dorsal fin, and S. ceramensis (Ceram Blenny) has a row of large black spots along midside behind eye.
Information
Max Size: 14 cm
Sea Temperature Range: 19.9-31.3°C
Depth: 0-8m
Habitat Generalization Index: 9
Also referred to as the SGI (Species Generalisation Index), this describes the habitat niche breadth of the species. Species with values less than 15 are found in a relatively narrow range of reef habitat types (specialists), while those over 25 may be found on most hard substrates within their range (generalists). Learn more here.
Conservation and Rarity
IUCN Status: Not Evaluated
Occurrence: Infrequent (6.8% of sites)
Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution. It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
Abundance: Few (3 per transect)
Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.
Edit by: RD Stuart-Smith, GJ Edgar, AJ Green, IV Shaw. 2015. Tropical Marine Fishes of Australia. Reed New Holland