Istiblennius andamanensis (Day, 1869)

Golani, Daniel & Bogorodsky, Sergey V., 2010, 2463, Zootaxa 2463, pp. 1-135 : 80

publication ID

1175­5334

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scientific name

Istiblennius andamanensis (Day, 1869)
status

 

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This Indian Ocean species is a junior synonym of Blenniella cyanostigma (Bleeker, 1849) which does not occur in the Red Sea ( Springer & Williams, 1994). Pfeffer's (1893) record was a misidentification ( Dor, 1984).

Dor, M. (1984) CLOFRES: Checklist of the Fishes of the Red Sea. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Jerusalem. 437 pp.

Pfeffer, G. (1893) Ostafrikanische Fische gesammelt von F. Stuhlmann in 1888 - 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten (2) 6 (Fishes) 1892 - 1893, pp. 129 - 171.

Springer, V. G. & Williams, J. T. (1994) The Indo-West Pacific blenniid fish genus Istiblenius reappraised: a revision of Istiblennius, Blenniella, and Paralticus, new genus. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 565, 1 - 193 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Blenniidae

Genus

Istiblennius

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Blenniidae

Genus

Blenniella