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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Subordo: Gobiesocoidei

Familia: Gobiesocidae
Genus: Dellichthys
Species: D. morelandi – D. trnskii – ...
Name

Dellichthys Briggs, 1955
References

Template:Briggs, 1955

Conway, K.W., Stewart, A.L. & Summers, A.P. 2018. A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae). ZooKeys 740: 77–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.740.22712. Reference page.

Links

Dellichthys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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ITIS

Dellichthys is a small genus of clingfishes from the family Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand.[2] It had been regarded as a monotypic genus but a second species was described in 2018.[3]
Species

Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish)
Dellichthys trnskii Conway, Stewart & Summers, 2018[4]

Etymology

The name of this genus was copined by John C. Briggs in 1955[1] 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]
References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Dellichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Dellichthys in FishBase. April 2019 version.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Dellichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
Conway, K. W.; A. L. Stewart & A. P. Summers (2018). "A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)". ZooKeys (740): 77–95. doi:10.3897/zookeys.740.22712. PMC 5904551. PMID 29674890.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

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