Alticus montanoi
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Alticus montanoi
| authority = (Sauvage, 1880)
| synonyms = * Salarias montanoi Sauvage, 1880Sauvage, H.E., 1880. Description de quelques Blennioïdes de la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4: 215–220.
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Alticus montanoi, Montano's rockskipper, is a species of combtooth blenny (family Blenniidae). It is a tropical blenny, and is known from the western Pacific Ocean, from around the Philippines northwards to Japan. It lives in the intertidal zone of exposed rocky shores and is often out of the water. The blennies are oviparous, and form distinct pairs when mating. They feed primarily off of benthic algae.
Etymology
The specific name honors the collector of the type, the French ethnologist Joseph Montaro.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | accessdate = 24 February 2019 | date = 26 October 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}
References
External links
- [https://archive.today/20130421224729/http://www.fishwise.co.za/Default.aspx?TabID=110&SpecieConfigId=281054 Alticus montanoi] at www.fishwise.co.za.
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Category:Fish of the Pacific Ocean
Category:Fish described in 1880
Category:Taxa named by Henri Émile Sauvage
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