Omobranchus steinitzi

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=Omobranchus steinitzi |volume=2014 |page=e.T48342141A48346367 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342141A48346367.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Omobranchus steinitzi

| authority = V. G. Springer & M. F. Gomon, 1975

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Omobranchus steinitzi is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Indian Ocean, in the Red Sea.Springer, V.G., J.T. Williams and T.M. Orrell, 1991. Catalog of type specimens of recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 2: Blenniidae. Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 519:28.

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|3.2|cm|in}} SL.{{FishBase |genus= Omobranchus|species= steinitzi| month = February | year = 2013}}

Etymology

The species is named after the Israeli marine biologist Heinz Steinitz.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html |title=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. |access-date=2011-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060129194502/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html |archive-date=2006-01-29 |url-status=dead }} (1909-1971), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), for his contributions to marine biology.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | access-date= 10 March 2021 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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