Adelotremus

Adelotremus is a small genus of combtooth blennies which are found in the Indo-Pacific region. The name of the genus is a compound of the Greek Adelos meaning "concealed" and trema meaning "hole", this was coined to reflect that the type of Adelotremus leptus was discovered hiding in a tube made by a polychaete.[1]

Adelotremus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Subfamily: Blenniinae
Genus: Adelotremus
Smith-Vaniz & Rose, 2012
Type species
Adelotremus leptus
Smith-Vaniz & Rose, 2012

Species

There are currently two species recognised in the genus Adelotremus:[2]

References

  1. 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 23 March 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Adelotremus in FishBase. February 2019 version.
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