Dellichthys

Dellichthys
Dellichthys morelandi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Subfamily: Gobiesocinae
Genus: Dellichthys
Briggs, 1955
Type species
Dellichthys morelandi
Briggs, 1955

Dellichthys is a small genus of clingfishes from the family Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand. It had been regarded as a monotypic genus but a second species was described in 2018.

Species

Etymology

The name of this genus was copined by John C. Briggs in 1955 and it honours the malacologist Richard Kenneth Dell (1920-2002), of the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, he had an interest in the shore fishes of New Zealand and providedmaterial for Briggs to study.

References

  1. 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Dellichthys". FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Dellichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  4. ↑ Conway, K. W.; A. L. Stewart & A. P. Summers (2018). "A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)". ZooKeys (740): 77–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.740.22712. PMC 5904551. PMID 29674890.
  5. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 June 2019.