''Dialommus fuscus'', the Galápagos four-eyed blenny, is a species of
labrisomid blenny
Blenny (from the Greek and , mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour. Six families are considered "true ...
endemic to the coasts of the
Galapagos Islands. It inhabits the
intertidal zone where it lives in
tide pools as well as traveling on land. Special adaptations of the
corneas of the eye and the gill filaments allow this species to travel up to from the ocean in search of prey items such as
insects and shore-dwelling
crabs.
References
fuscus
Fish described in 1891
Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert
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