New fishy friends !!!

Every year, SoundWaters explores the shallow intertidal areas of Long Island Sound by putting students in chest waders with seine and dip nets to discover the diversity and adaptations of Long Island Sound creatures.

Most of the time, the students discover common species such as killifish and mummichogs, but every so often we find a species we had not caught before.

We believe this is a species of Blenny of genus Hypsoblennius

Blennys are generally small fish with elongated bodies and relatively large eyes and mouths. Their dorsal fins are usually long and continuous. Their blunt heads typically have whisker-like structures called cirri. As typical benthic fish, these species spent the majority of their time on or near the Sound floor. They can often be found burrowing in the sand or hiding in crevices in reefs.