Forsterygion

Life-forms

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
Superordo: Blenniimorphae
Ordo: Blenniiformes
Subordo: Blennioidei

Familia: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Forsterygion
Synonyms (2): Grahamina – Obliquichthys

Species (8): F. capito – F. flavonigrum – F. gymnotum – F. lapillum – F. malcolmi – F. maryannae – F. nigripenne – F. varium
Name

Forsterygion Whitley & Phillipps, 1939
Authority for current placement:
undisputed by all subsequent authorities
Gender: [neuter]
Original status: valid genus
Type species: Blennius varius Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Fixation: original designation [p. 236] [and monotypy]

References

Whitley, G.P. & Phillipps, W.J. 1939. Descriptive notes on some New Zealand fishes. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 69: 228–236. Online. Reference page. [first availability, see p. 236]

Additional references

Clements, K.D.; Jawad, L.A.; Stewart, A.L. 2000: The New Zealand triplefin Grahamina signata (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae): a junior synonym of G. gymnotum from Tasmania. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 30(4): 373–384. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2000.9517629
Hardy, G.S. 1989: The genus Forsterygion Whitley & Phillipps, 1939 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) in New Zealand and Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Journal of natural history, 23(3): 491–512. DOI: 10.1080/00222938900770291
Jawad, L.A. 2008: Second revision of the New Zealand triplefin genus Forsterygion Whitley and Phillips, 1939 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae). Journal of natural history, 42(47-48): 2943–2989. DOI: 10.1080/00222930802256842

Links

Bailly, N. (2010). Forsterygion. In: Nicolas Bailly (2010). FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269166 on 2011-11-29 [needs work]
Forsterygion 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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Forsterygion is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae native to coastal New Zealand, but also introduced to Tasmania, Australia.
Species

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

Spotted robust triplefin, Forsterygion capito
Yellow-and-black triplefin, Forsterygion flavonigrum Fricke & Roberts, 1994
Tasmanian robust triplefin, Forsterygion gymnotum
Common triplefin, Forsterygion lapillum Hardy, 1989
Mottled triplefin, Forsterygion malcolmi Hardy, 1987
Oblique-swimming triplefin, Forsterygion maryannae
Estuarine triplefin, Forsterygion nigripenne
Striped triplefin, Forsterygion varium (Forster, 1801)

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

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Forsterygion". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Forsterygion in FishBase. April 2019 version.
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.