Parablennius salensis

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |author2=Craig, M.T. |date=2014 |title=Parablennius salensis |volume=2014 |page=e.T185136A1770511 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T185136A1770511.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Parablennius salensis

| authority = Bath, 1990

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Parablennius salensis is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern central Atlantic ocean near the coasts of Cape Verde.{{FishBase |genus= Parablennius|species= salensis| month = January | year = 2019}} It was first named and described by Hans Bath in 1990. This species reaches a length of {{convert|6|cm|in}} TL.

Etymology

The species name salensis refers to the island of Sal (Cape Verde), the type location.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | accessdate= 14 January 2019| author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 26 October 2018}} Its common name in Portuguese and Capeverdean Creole is "mané-cabeça".

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