Dellichthys
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}
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| image = Dellichthys morelandi.jpg
| image_caption = Dellichthys morelandi
| taxon = Dellichthys
| authority = Briggs, 1955
| type_species = Dellichthys morelandi
| type_species_authority = Briggs, 1955{{Cof record|genid=6789|title=Dellichthys|access-date=6 June 2019}}
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Dellichthys is a small genus of clingfishes from the family Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand.{{FishBase genus|genus=Dellichthys|month=April|year=2019}} It had been regarded as a monotypic genus but a second species was described in 2018.{{Cof genus|genus=Dellichthys|access-date=6 June 2019}}
Species
- Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish)
- Dellichthys trnskii Conway, Stewart & Summers, 2018{{Cite journal | author1 = Conway, K. W. | author2 = A. L. Stewart | author3 = A. P. Summers | name-list-style = amp | year = 2018 |title = A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae) | journal = ZooKeys | issue =740 | pages = 77–95 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.740.22712 | pmid = 29674890 | pmc = 5904551 | url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=22712| doi-access = free }}
Etymology
The name of this genus was copined by John C. Briggs in 1955 and it honours the malacologist Richard Kenneth Dell (1920-2002), of the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, he had an interest in the shore fishes of New Zealand and providedmaterial for Briggs to study.{{cite web | url = https://www.etyfish.org/gobiesociformes/ | title = Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes) | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 7 February 2019 | accessdate = 6 June 2019}}
References
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