The latest on the brilliant, baffling blennies!
This page provides information from our ongoing study of the tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), a wonderfully charismatic species whose behaviour and life history has been little studied up to now.
See film clips of tompot blennies sneaking, courting, cleaning and displaying (plus other animal behaviour) by clicking below.
From sneaker to bourgeois male: Long-term observations on recognized tompot blenny Parablennius gattorugine individuals reveal new information on their biology
A summary of our latest research findings on tompot blennies has just been published (December 2022) in the Journal of Fish Biology. We’re particularly pleased with that title! Click the button below to view the paper or e-mail for a copy.
Check out our observations on other marine animal behaviour
“We’re all individuals!” summarised how recognising individual blennies shines new light on fish behaviour in April 2017’s The Marine Biologist.
‘Glam rocks’ was the view of BBC Wildlife Magazine on a tompot blenny’s habitat in July 2016.
‘Territoriality in the tompot blenny…’ (2016) appeared in the Journal of Fish Biology. Please email for a copy of the paper.
‘The Lives and Times of Tompot Blennies’…with a full account of our observations to 2017 was published in the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society Bulletin Spring 2018 edition.
