Lepidoblennius

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Lepidoblennius
Eastern Jumping Blenny-Lepidoblennius haplodactylus (24994085054).jpg
Eastern Jumping Blenny (Lepidoblennius haplodactylus)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Subfamily: Tripterygiinae
Genus: Lepidoblennius
Steindachner, 1867
Type species
Lepidoblennius haplodactylus
Steindachner, 1867 [1]
Species

See text.

Lepidoblennius is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae. Both species occur in Australia. [2]

Species

There are currently two species in the genus Lepidoblennius: [2]

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<i>Hypsoblennius</i> Genus of fishes

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<i>Starksia</i> Genus of fishes

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Eastern jumping blenny Species of fish

Lepidoblennius haplodactylus, known commonly as the eastern jumping blenny, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Lepidoblennius. It was described by Franz Steindachner in 1867 and is the type species of the genus Lepidoblennius.

Western jumping blenny

Lepidoblennius marmoratus, known commonly as the western jumping blenny, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Lepidoblennius. It was first described by William John Macleay in 1878.

Gobioclinus is a genus of labrisomid blennies from the coasts of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans off the Americas.

Helcogramma ishigakiensis is a species of triplefin which is endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan. It was described by Aoyagi in 1954 as Lepidoblennius marmoratus ishigakiensis. It was synonymised with Helcogramma inclinata by Ronald Fricke in 1997 but its status as a valid species was reasserted by Satokuni Tashiro in 2014. It is not included in FishBase but is in the Catalog of Fishes.

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Lepidoblennius". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Lepidoblennius in FishBase . April 2019 version.