Ecsenius polystictus, known commonly as the Andaman combtooth-blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny

Combtooth blenny

Combtooth blennies are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae. They are the largest family of blennies, with approximately 371 species in 53 genera represented...

 in the genus Ecsenius

Ecsenius

Ecsenius is a large genus of fish in the Blenniidae family. It currently contains 53 described species.-Species:*Ecsenius aequalis, Fourline blenny*Ecsenius alleni, Allen's blenny*Ecsenius aroni, Aron's blenny...

. It is found in the eastern Indian ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

, around Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. It was named by Victor Gruschka Springer and John E. Randall in 1999, and can reach a maximum length of 4 centimetres. Blennies in this species feed primarily off of plants, including benthic algae

Algae

Algae are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. They are photosynthetic like plants, and "simple" because their tissues are not organized into the many...

and weeds.