Alticus montanoi

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Alticus montanoi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Alticus
Species:
A. montanoi
Binomial name
Alticus montanoi
(Sauvage, 1880)
Synonyms [2]
  • Salarias montanoiSauvage, 1880 [3]

Alticus montanoi, Montano's rockskipper, is a species of combtooth blenny (family Blenniidae). [1] [2] It is a tropical blenny, and is known from the western Pacific Ocean, from around the Philippines northwards to Japan. It lives in the intertidal zone of exposed rocky shores and is often out of the water. [1] The blennies are oviparous, and form distinct pairs when mating. They feed primarily off of benthic algae. [2]

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Etymology

The specific name honors the collector of the type, the French ethnologist Joseph Montaro. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Williams, J.T. (2014). "Alticus montanoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014 e.T48321164A48361844. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48321164A48361844.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Alticus montanoi". FishBase . February 2024 version.
  3. ↑ Sauvage, H.E., 1880. Description de quelques Blennioïdes de la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4: 215–220.
  4. ↑ 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 24 February 2019.


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