Brockius

Brockius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Division:	Teleostei
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Labrisomidae
Genus:	Brockius; C. Hubbs, 1953
Type species
	Labrosomus striatus; Clark L. Hubbs, 1953

Brockius is a genus of labrisomid blennies from the waters of the eastern Pacific and the western Atlantic where they are associated with reefs and seaweed-covered rocks.

Species

The species in the genus are:

Brockius albigenys (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1928) (White-cheek blenny)
Brockius nigricinctus (Howell-Rivero), 1936 (Spotcheek blenny)
Brockius striatus (C. L. Hubbs, 1953) (Green blenny)

Taxonomy

The name Brockius was coined by Clark L. Hubbs as a subgenus of Labrisomus but has been raised to a genus in its own right.

Etymology

The generic name honours the ichthyologist and herpetologist Vernon E. Brock (1912-1971) who collected the type of B. striatus.

References

↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Brockius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Brockius". FishBase. February 2019 version.
↑ Hsiu-Chin Lin; Philip A. Hastings (2013). "Phylogeny and biogeography of a shallow water fish clade (Teleostei: Blenniiformes)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (210): 210. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-210. PMC 3849733. PMID 24067147.
↑ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 April 2019.

[1] Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Brockius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 April 2019.

[FishBase-2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Brockius". FishBase. February 2019 version.

[BMC-3] Hsiu-Chin Lin; Philip A. Hastings (2013). "Phylogeny and biogeography of a shallow water fish clade (Teleostei: Blenniiformes)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (210): 210. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-210. PMC 3849733. PMID 24067147.

[4] Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 April 2019.