Brockius
Brockius is a genus of labrisomid from the waters of the eastern Pacific and the western Atlantic where they are associated with reefs and weed covered rocks.
| Brockius | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Labrisomidae |
| Genus: | Brockius C. Hubbs, 1953 |
| Type species | |
| Labrosomus striatus Clark L. Hubbs, 1953[1] | |
Species
The species in the genus are:[2]
- Brockius albigenys (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1928) (White-cheek blenny)
- Brockius nigricinctus (Howell-Rivero), 1936 (Spotcheek blenny)
- Brockius striatus (Clark L. Hubbs, 1953) (Green blenny)
Taxonomy
The name Brockius was coined by Clark L. Hubbs as a subgenus of Labrisomus but has been raised to a genus I its own right.[3]
Etymology
The generic name honours the ichthyologist and herpetologist Vernon E. Brock (1912-1971) who collected the type of B. striatus.[4]
References
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Brockius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Brockius in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- Hsiu-Chin Lin; Philip A. Hastings (2013). "Phylogeny and biogeography of a shallow water fish clade (Teleostei: Blenniiformes)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (210): 210. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-210. PMC 3849733. PMID 24067147.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
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