New Zealand urchin clingfish

New Zealand urchin clingfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiesociformes
Family:	Gobiesocidae
Genus:	Dellichthys
Species:	D. morelandi
Binomial name
	Dellichthys morelandi; Briggs, 1955

The New Zealand urchin clingfish (Dellichthys morelandi) is a clingfish. It is found around New Zealand wherever sea urchins are present. Its length is between 2 and 3 cm.[1]

This species was described by John C. Briggs in 1955[2] and was thought to be the sole species in the monotypic genus Dellichthys until 2018 when a new species, Dellichthys trnskii, was described after being discovered from intertidal and shallow coastal waters of New Zealand in that year.[3] Briggs gave the species its specific name in honour of Jack Munne Moreland (1921-2012) of the Dominion Museum in Wellington.[4]

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Dellichthys morelandi" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys morelandi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
Conway, Kevin W.; Stewart, Andrew L.; Summers, Adam P. (2018). "A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)". ZooKeys (740): 77–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.740.22712. PMC 5904551. PMID 29674890. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

"Dellichthys morelandi". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8

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[Fishbase-1] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Dellichthys morelandi" in FishBase. April 2019 version.

[CofF-2] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys morelandi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

[3] Conway, Kevin W.; Stewart, Andrew L.; Summers, Adam P. (2018). "A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)". ZooKeys (740): 77–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.740.22712. PMC 5904551. PMID 29674890. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

[ETYFish-4] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 June 2019.