A Pacific Leaping Blenny (IMAGE)

University of New South Wales

A Pacific Leaping Blenny

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This is a male Pacific leaping blenny, Alticus arnoldorum, in Guam. These terrestrial fishes spend all their adult lives on land, on the rocks in the splash zone. They use a tail-twisting behavior to leap about.

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Courtney Morgans/UNSW

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