📸 PhotoPhoto: Izuzuki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Yatabe blenny
Parablennius yatabei (Yatabe blenny · パラブレンニウス・ヤタベイ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its maximum body length of 9 cm is almost the same as the long side of a credit card (8.56 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 Living along rocky coasts a few meters deep in Busan and Jeju, tide pools in coastal rock crevices are its home.
- 💡 The male cleans out an empty barnacle shell to use as a nest for laying eggs.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Yatabe blenny is a small marine blenniid fish living along shallow rocky coasts of Busan and Jeju in Korea, as well as Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its body is laterally compressed and lacks scales. It has leaf-like skin cirri above the eyes, along with small teeth and 2 rear canine teeth in both jaws.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds mainly on seaweeds and organic detritus. In summer, the male cleans out an empty oyster or barnacle shell as a spawning site and guards the eggs until they hatch after the female lays them.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
Its domestic distribution is listed as Busan and Jeju on the National List of Species of Korea.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2010) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/154829/4645181
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • catalogueoflife.org — 4CMJN
- • iucnredlist.org — 4645181
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000058928 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000058928
- • wikidata.org — Q2711920
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:IsoGPyg.jpg
- • fishbase.se — Parablennius-yatabei.html
- • species.nibr.go.kr — list
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Richard J. Harris · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Meiacanthus grammistes)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.