| Enchelyurus | |
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| Euchelyurus ater | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Blenniidae |
| Subfamily: | Blenniinae |
| Genus: | Enchelyurus W. K. H. Peters, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Enchelyurus flavipes Peters, 1868 | |
Enchelyurus is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
There are currently five recognized species in this genus: [1]
Combtooth blennies are blenniiformids; percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 generas. Combtooth blennies are found in tropical and subtropical waters in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans; some species are also found in brackish and even freshwater environments.
Labrisomids are small blennioids (blennies), percomorph marine fish belonging to the family Labrisomidae. Found mostly in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, the family contains about 110 species in 15 genera.
Blenny is a common name for a type of fish. The term is ambiguous, having been applied to several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour. Six families are considered "true blennies", all grouped together under the order Blenniiformes; its members are referred to as blenniiformids. About 151 genera and nearly 900 species have been described within the order. The order was formerly classified as a suborder of the Perciformes but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World divided the Perciformes into a number of new orders and the Blenniiformes were placed in the percomorph clade Ovalentaria alongside the such taxa as Cichliformes, Mugiliformes and Gobiesociformes.
Malacoctenus is a genus of labrisomid blennies native to the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
Ecsenius is a large genus of fish in the family Blenniidae.
Enchelyurus flavipes, the yeloowfin blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny from the western Pacific Ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade.
Acanthemblemaria is a genus of chaenopsid blennies native to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Blenniella is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Cirripectes is a large genus of combtooth blennies found throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Enchelyurus ater, the black blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the Pacific ocean. This species grows to a length of 5.5 centimetres (2.2 in) TL.
Enchelyurus brunneolus is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the eastern central Pacific ocean, around Hawaii. This species grows to a length of 2.9 centimetres (1.1 in) SL.
Enchelyurus kraussii, Krauss' blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. This species grows to a length of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in) SL. The specific name honours the German scientist, traveller and collector Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812-1890).
Enchelyurus petersi is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Indian Ocean, in the Red Sea. This species grows to a length of 5.4 centimetres (2.1 in) SL. The specific name honours the German naturalist and explorer Wilhelm Peters (1815-1883) who named the genus Enchelyurus for the similar species E. flavipes in 1868.
Hypleurochilus is a genus of combtooth blennies found throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
Hypsoblennius is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Meiacanthus is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. Many species in this genus make their way into the aquarium trade and several are venomous. The genus name Meiacanthus is derived from the Greek meion meaning "less" and akantha meaning "thorn" and refers to most species having relatively few dorsal fin spines.
Parablennius is a diverse genus of combtooth blennies found in the Atlantic, western Pacific, and Indian oceans.
Paraclinus is a genus of labrisomid blennies native to eastern Pacific Ocean and the western Atlantic Ocean.
Starksia is a genus of labrisomid blennies native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Their typical length is 2 cm (0.79 in) SL. The generic name honours the American ichthyologist Edwin Chapin Starks (1867-1932) of Stanford University for his work on Pacific coastal fishes. As a genus Starksia is distinguished from other labrisomids by their scaled bodies, two obvious soft rays in the pelvic fin and the male's have an intromittent organ which is near to or attached to the first spine of their anal fins, which is also somewhat separated from the fin.
Blenniinae is one of two subfamilies in the combtooth blenny family Blenniidae, it is the smallest of the two subfamilies in the Blennidae with 16 genera and 95 species.
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