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]
| Dellichthys | |
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| Dellichthys morelandi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiesociformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiesocinae |
| Genus: | Dellichthys Briggs, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Dellichthys morelandi | |
Species edit
- Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish)
- Dellichthys trnskii Conway, Stewart & Summers, 2018[4]
Etymology edit
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 edit
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Dellichthys in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.