Forsterygion

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Forsterygion
Fosterygion flavonigrum (Yellow & black triplefin).jpg
Yellow-and-black triplefin
Forsterygion flavonigrum
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Striped triplefin Forsterygion varium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Subfamily: Tripterygiinae
Genus: Forsterygion
Whitley & Phillipps, 1939
Type species
Blennius varius
Forster, 1801 [1]
Species

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Forsterygion is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae native to coastal New Zealand, but also introduced to Tasmania, Australia.

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Species

The following species are classified in this genus: [2]

Etymology

The name of this genus is an amalgam of Forster in honour of Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) – a naturalist aboard Captain Cook’s second voyage on HMS Resolution; he collected the type on this voyage, describing it and naming it Blennius varius – and -ygion, the second part of the genus Tripterygion , into which F. varius and F. nigripenne had been placed. [3]

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Forsterygion". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Forsterygion". FishBase . April 2019 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 May 2019.