Dellichthys
Dellichthys morelandi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiesociformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Subfamily: Gobiesocinae
Genus: Dellichthys
Briggs, 1955
Type species
Dellichthys morelandi
Briggs, 1955[1]

Dellichthys is a small genus of clingfishes from the family Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand.[2] It had been regarded as a monotypic genus but a second species was described in 2018.[3]

Species

Etymology

The name of this genus was copined by John C. Briggs in 1955[1] 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.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Dellichthys in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & 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.
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