This species has colonised the northern Red Sea by anti-Lessepsian migration through the Suez Canal.

[1] The peacock blenny reaches a length of 13 centimetres (5.1 in) TL.

Bourgeois males typically build and guard nests.

Sneaker males will mimic female behaviors in order to approach nests and fertilize eggs.

"The diet of peacock blenny, Salaria pavo (Blenniidae), in the eastern Adriatic Sea".