Gillellus

Gillellus is a genus of sand stargazers, found in the eastern central Pacific Ocean and western central Atlantic Ocean.

Gillellus
Gillellus semicinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Dactyloscopidae
Genus: Gillellus
C. H. Gilbert, 1890
Type species
Gillellus semicinctus
C. H. Gilbert, 1890

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Etymology

The name of this genus is a diminutive of the surname Gill and is in honour of the American zoologist Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914) of the Smithsonian Institution.[2]

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Gillellus in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. 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 5 May 2019.


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