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 |
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]
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]
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 |
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]
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]