It was first recorded by French biologists
Quoy and
Gaimard in 1824.[3][4]
Biology
Blenniella gibbifrons inhabit the shallow water near the shore of intertidal reef flats. They prefer water from 0.5 to 1.5 m deep where the substrate consists of a thin carpet of
algal turf and sand. They inhabit the water layer immediately above the bottom (
benthic) . They are
Oviparous with the eggs and young left to fend for themselves. Eggs are adhesive and are attached to the bottom by a threadlike, adhesive pad or pedestal . Larvae are
planktonic and often found swimming in shallow, coastal waters.[5][6]
^Voyage autour du monde … pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 (with Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet, Jean René Constant Quoy, et al.), 1824.
^Springer, V.G. and J.T. Williams, 1994. The Indo-West Pacific blenniid fish genus Istiblennius reappraised: a revision of Istiblennius, Blenniella, and Paralticus, new genus. Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 565:1-193. (Ref. 9962)