Chasmodes bosquianus

For other fish commonly called "striped blenny", see striped blenny (disambiguation).

Chasmodes bosquianus, the striped blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Atlantic ocean, from New York to Florida.^[2] The specific name uses the suffix -ianus to denote "belonging to" and refers to the French naturalist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), whose notes Bernard Germain de Lacépède used to base his description of this blenny.^[3]

Striped blenny
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Blenniidae
Genus:	Chasmodes
Species:	C. bosquianus
Binomial name
Chasmodes bosquianus (Lacepède, 1800)
Synonyms
Blennius bosquianus Lacepède, 1800

Striped blennies can be very playful and curious in the home aquarium.