Biology:Dellichthys

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Dellichthys
Dellichthys morelandi.jpg
Dellichthys morelandi
Scientific classification e
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

  • Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish)
  • Dellichthys trnskii Conway, Stewart & Summers, 2018[4]

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

Wikidata ☰ Q14444434 entry