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Oxylebius pictus

Painted greenling
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Two painted greenlings (one dark and one pale) at Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Hexagrammidae
Genus: Oxylebius
T. N. Gill, 1862
Species: O. pictus
Binomial name
Oxylebius pictus
T. N. Gill, 1862

The painted greenling, Oxylebius pictus, is a marine fish native to the northeast Pacific Ocean. Its range is from Kodiak Island, Alaska to central Baja California. It can reach a total size of 25 cm (10 in) and has seven vertical dark bands. It inhabits rocky areas shallower than 50 m (160 ft). Specimens (mainly juveniles) sometimes gain protection from larger predators by living among the tentacles of Cribrinopsis albopunctata or Urticina piscivora sea anemones, which are venomous to other animals but do not harm the painted greenling.

The painted greenling feeds on crustaceans, polychaetes, small molluscs and bryozoans.



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