Dellichthys
Genus of fishes
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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]
| Dellichthys | |
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| Dellichthys morelandi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiesocinae |
| Genus: | Dellichthys Briggs, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Dellichthys morelandi | |
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]