Istiblennius

<i>Istiblennius</i>

Istiblennius

Genus of fishes

Istiblennius is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The generic name is a compound noun composed of istio the Greek for "sail", referring to the high dorsal fin of the type species, Istiblennius muelleri, and blennius which is derived from a word for "mucus" and refers to the scaleless bodies that characterise the Blenniidae.[2]

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Species

The 14 currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "genid=6704". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. [2]
    Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Istiblennius in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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