Brockius

Brockius is a genus of labrisomid from the waters of the eastern Pacific and the western Atlantic where they are associated with reefs and weed covered rocks.

Brockius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Labrisomidae
Genus: Brockius
Clark L. Hubbs, 1953
Type species
Labrosomus striatus
Clark L. Hubbs, 1953[1]

Species

The species in the genus are:[2]

Taxonomy

The name Brockius was coined by Clark L. Hubbs as a subgenus of Labrisomus but has been raised to a genus I its own right.[3]

Etymology

The generic name honours the ichthyologist and herpetologist Vernon E. Brock (1912-1971) who collected the type of B. striatus.[4]

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References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Brockius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Brockius in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  3. Hsiu-Chin Lin; Philip A. Hastings (2013). "Phylogeny and biogeography of a shallow water fish clade (Teleostei: Blenniiformes)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (210): 210. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-210. PMC 3849733. PMID 24067147.
  4. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
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