''Ecsenius niue'' is a species of combtooth blenny in the genus ''

Ecsenius ''Ecsenius'' is a large genus of fish in the family Blenniidae. Several species, including ''Ecsenius midas'', the Midas blenny, and ''Ecsenius bicolor'', the bicolor blenny, are commonly sold at aquarium stores as pets. Species There are curre ...

''.''Ecsenius niue''
at www.fishbase.org. It is found in coral reefs around

Niue Island Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tonga ...

, in the eastern central Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of 3.1 centimetres. Blennies in this species feed primarily off of plants, including

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from ancient Greek, βένθος (bénthos), meaning "t ...

algae Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...

and weeds.Food items for ''Ecsenius niue''
at www.fishbase.org. The specific name refers to Niue Island, so far the only location from which ''E. niue'' is known.Springer, V. G., 200
''Ecsenius niue, new species of blenniid fish, and new distribution records for other species in the Opsifrontalis species group.''
Zootaxa No. 72: 1-6.

References

niue Fish described in 2002 Taxa named by Victor G. Springer {{Blenniidae-stub