Common name | Japanese snakeblenny |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
Country | South Africa |
Locality | |
Ref. | Springer, V.G., 1986 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | primary lexeme |
1st modifier | non-fish animal |
2nd modifier | locality/area |
Remarks | 'snake' like 'serpent' and 'snail' is etymologically the 'crawling' animal, from a prehistoric German base denoting 'crawl' (p. 485 in Ref. 11979); 'blenny' from Latin 'blennius', i.e., a sea fish (Ref. 11978), from Greek 'blennos', i.e., slime, a fish allied to 'kôbios'. |