Omobranchus smithi
{{Short description|Species of fish}}
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| image =
| status= VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Omobranchus smithi
| authority = (Rao, 1974)
| synonyms = *Cruantus smithi Rao, 1974
}}
Omobranchus smithi is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans.{{FishBase species |genus= Omobranchus|species= smithi| month = February | year = 2013}}
Etymology
The specific name honours the South African chemist and ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897-1968).{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | accessdate = 7 April 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 Visweswara Rao
Category:Fish described in 1974
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