Istiblennius

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]

Istiblennius
Rippled Rockskipper (I. edentulus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Subfamily: Salarinae
Genus: Istiblennius
Whitley, 1943
Type species
Salarias muelleri
Klunzinger, 1879[1]

Species

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

References

  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. 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. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Istiblennius in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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