Omobranchus smithi

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| status= VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=Omobranchus smithi |volume=2014 |page=e.T48342284A48353451 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342284A48353451.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Omobranchus smithi

| authority = (Rao, 1974)

| synonyms = *Cruantus smithi Rao, 1974

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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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