Antennablennius simonyi
{{Short description|Species of fish}}
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| status= LC
| status_system= IUCN3.1
| genus = Antennablennius
| species = simonyi
| authority = (Steindachner, 1902)
| synonyms = *Salarias simonyi Steindachner, 1902
- Antennablennius girad Fraser-Brunner, 1951
}}
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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Category:Taxa named by Franz Steindachner
Category:Fish described in 1902
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