Dellichthys
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Dellichthys is a small genus of clingfishes from the family Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand.[1] It had been regarded as a monotypic genus but a second species was described in 2018.[2]
Species
- Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish)
- Dellichthys trnskii Conway, Stewart & Summers, 2018[3]
Etymology
The name of this genus was copined by John C. Briggs in 1955[4] and it honours the malacologist Richard Kenneth Dell (1920-2002), of the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, he had an interest in the shore fishes of New Zealand and providedmaterial for Briggs to study.[5]
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