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The Blennies : Blenniidas 



rock-pools and others, often deep blue in color, abound in the 

 coral reefs of Polynesia. 



The rock - skippers (Salarias, Alticus > etc.) are herbiv- 

 orous, with serrated teeth set loosely in the jaws. These live 

 in the rock-pools of the tropics and leap from rock to rock when 

 disturbed with the agility of lizards. They are dusky or gray 

 in color with handsome markings. One of them, Erpichthys or 

 Alticus saliens in Samoa, lives about lava rocks between tide- 



Fio. 452. Emblemaria atlantica Jordan. Pensacola, Fla. 



marks, and at low tide remains on the rocks, over which it runs 

 with the greatest ease and with much speed, its movements 

 being precisely like those of Periophthalmus. As in the species 

 of the latter genus, otherwise wholly different, this Alticus 

 has short ventral fins padded with muscle. 



FIG. 453. Scartichthys enosimce Jordan & Snyder, a fish of the rock-pools of the 

 sacred island of Enoshima, Japan. Family BUnniidce. 



Erpichthys atlanticus is found in abundance on both coasts 

 of tropical America. Many species abound in Polynesia and 

 in both Indies. Salarias enosimaz lives in the clefts of lava 



