Common name of Xiphasia matsubarai
 
Common name Japanese snake blenny
Language English
Type Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 2 - (Preferred common name (unique))
Country Guam
Locality
Ref. Myers, R.F., 1991
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core primary lexeme
1st modifier non-fish animal
2nd modifier locality/area
Remarks 'snake' like 'serpent' and 'snail' is etymologically the 'crawling' animal, from a prehistoric German base denoting 'crawl' (p. 485 in Ref. 11979); 'blenny' from Latin 'blennius', i.e., a sea fish (Ref. 11978), from Greek 'blennos', i.e., slime, a fish allied to 'kôbios'.
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