Antennablennius simonyi

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| status= LC

| status_system= IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |author2=Smith-Vaniz, W.F. |author3=Hastings, P.A. |date=2014 |title=Antennablennius simonyi |volume=2014 |page=e.T46079290A46664374 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T46079290A46664374.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Antennablennius

| species = simonyi

| authority = (Steindachner, 1902)

| synonyms = *Salarias simonyi Steindachner, 1902

}}

Antennablennius simonyi, Simony's blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Indian Ocean, from the Gulf of Aden to the Persian Gulf.Randall, J.E., 1995. Coastal fishes of Oman. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 439 p.

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|26.0|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Antennablennius |species= simonyi| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The specific name honours the Austrian mathematician and entomologist Oskar Simony (1852-1915), who looked after the collection of fish specimen on an expedition to Socotra on which the type was collected.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | accessdate = 26 February 2019 | date = 26 October 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}

References

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simonyi

Category:Taxa named by Franz Steindachner

Category:Fish described in 1902

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