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Ophidion barbatum

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Other uses|Snake blenny (disambiguation){{!}}Snake blenny}}

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| image = Ophidion barbatum (Stefano Guerrieri) 1.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite journal | author1 = Golani, D.| author2 = Nouar, A. | author3 = Quignard, J.P.| author4 = Cuttelod, A. | author5 = Nielsen, J.G. |name-list-style=amp | title = Ophidion barbatum | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |year=2011 | page = e.T198625A9058645 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/198625/3 | accessdate = 15 July 2018}}

| taxon = Ophidion barbatum

| authority = Linnaeus, 1758

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Ophidion barbatum, the snake blenny, is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae. It is widespread in the eastern Atlantic from southern England to Senegal in West Africa, and the northern Mediterranean. It is a marine subtropical demersal fish, up to {{convert|25|cm|1}} long.{{FishBase | genus = Ophidion | species = barbatum | id = 1742 | month = January | year = 2009}}

Parasites

As most fish, the Snake blenny harbours a variety of parasites. One of them is the diclidophorid monogenean Flexophora ophidii. The species was described in 1962 by Maria Prost and Louis Euzet from the coasts of France in the Mediterranean Sea {{cite journal|last1=Prost|first1=Maria|last2=Euzet|first2=Louis|title=Flexophora ophidii n. g. n. sp. un Diclidophoridae (Monogenea) parasite d'Ophidium barbatum (L.) (Teleostei)|journal=Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée|volume=37|issue=3|year=2017|pages=210–215|issn=0003-4150|doi=10.1051/parasite/1962373210|doi-access=free}} {{open access}} and found 58 years later off Algeria.{{cite journal|last1=Bouguerche|first1=Chahinez|last2=Justine|first2=Jean-Lou|last3=Tazerouti|first3=Fadila|title=Redescription of Flexophora ophidii Prost & Euzet, 1962 (Monogenea: Diclidophoridae) from Ophidion barbatum (Ophidiidae) off the Algerian coast, Mediterranean Sea|journal=Systematic Parasitology|year=2020|volume=97 |issue=6 |pages=827–833 |issn=0165-5752|doi=10.1007/s11230-020-09948-y |pmid=33159625 | pmc=7647889|doi-access=free}}

References

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Category:Ophidion (fish)

Category:Fish described in 1758

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus

Category:Fish of the Atlantic Ocean

Category:Fish of the Adriatic Sea

Category:Fish of the Mediterranean Sea

Category:Fish of West Asia

Category:Fish of Africa

Category:Fish of Europe

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