Adelotremus leptus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=Adelotremus leptus |volume=2014 |page=e.T47400952A48368129 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T47400952A48368129.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

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| taxon = Adelotremus leptus

| authority = Smith-Vaniz & Rose, 2012

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Adelotremus leptus is a species of combtooth blenny native to the Red Sea where it is only known from Marsa el At, Egypt. It was caught at a depth of {{convert|15|m|ft}}. It has a slender body.{{cite web|last1=Capuli|first1=Estelita Emily|title=Adelotremus leptus Smith-Vaniz & Rose, 2012|url=http://www.fishbase.org/summary/67382|website=Fishbase|accessdate=6 December 2015}} The first specimen, a female, measured {{convert|3.54|cm|in}} SL, and others have been recorded since.{{cite web|last1=Snapper|first1=Glasseye|title=Red Sea trip report|url=http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55967|website=Wetpixel.com|accessdate=6 December 2015}} Until 2017 this species was considered to be the only species in the monotypic genus Adelotremus.Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Rose, J.M. (2012): Adelotremus leptus, a new genus and species of sabertooth blenny from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Nemophini). Zootaxa,3249: 39–46. In 2017 a second species, Adelotremus deloachi was described from Indonesia.{{cite journal | author = William F. Smith-Vaniz | year = 2017 | title = A new species of the fangblenny Adelotremus from Indonesia, with supplemental description of A. leptus (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Nemophini) | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4258.2.7 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 4258 | issue = 2}}