Biology:Malacoctenus gilli
From HandWiki
Short description: Species of fish
| Malacoctenus gilli | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Labrisomidae |
| Genus: | Malacoctenus |
| Species: | M. gilli
|
| Binomial name | |
| Malacoctenus gilli (Steindachner, 1867)
| |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Malacoctenus gilli, the dusky blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Atlantic Ocean including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the Bahamas to the north coast of South America. This species inhabits reef patches, areas of sandy substrates with available rocks and beds of seagrass at depths of from 1 to 5 metres (3.3 to 16.4 ft). It can reach a length of 7.6 centimetres (3.0 in) TL.[2] The person honoured in the patronym of this species was not identified by Steindachner but it is most probably the United States ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914), the authority for the generic name Malacoctenus.[3]
References
- ↑ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Malacoctenus gilli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T46104265A48355222. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T46104265A48355222.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/46104265/48355222. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Malacoctenus gilli" in FishBase. October 2013 version.
- ↑ "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 10 November 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes3/. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
Wikidata ☰ Q2323199 entry
 |  |
