Parablennius tentacularis

Size range: 5-15 cm

Common size: 8 cm

Depth range: 3-15 m

Habitat:

• Hard - rocky, sandy, or gravel covered substrate
• Light vegetation

Water column position:

• Benthic

Colors & patterns:

• Background color beige with 7-8 dark vertical broken bars
• Usually with a dark spot at the beginning of the dorsal fin
• Tentacles long with delicate thread-like filaments above the eye, branched only on the posterior edge
• Dorsal fin without a notch in the middle

Behavior:

• Cryptic, hides in crevices
• Diurnal
• Shy
• Territorial males guards egg mass laid by several females

Schooling characteristics:

• Solitary

Feeding characteristic - small benthic invertebrates

Native

EM notes: description of special east Mediterranean characteristics.