''Brockius'' is a genus of
labrisomid
Labrisomids are small blennioids (blennies), percomorph marine fish belonging to the family Labrisomidae. Found mostly in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, the family contains about 110 species in 15 genera.
Stockier than the average bl ...
blennies
Blenny (from the Greek and , mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour. Six families are considered "t ...
from the waters of the eastern Pacific and the western Atlantic where they are associated with reefs and seaweed-covered rocks.
Species
The species in the genus are:
*''
Brockius albigenys''
( Beebe & Tee-Van, 1928) (White-cheek blenny)
*''
Brockius nigricinctus''
( Howell-Rivero), 1936 (Spotcheek blenny)
*''
Brockius striatus''
(Clark L. Hubbs, 1953) (Green blenny)
Taxonomy
The name ''Brockius'' was coined by Clark L. Hubbs as a
subgenus of ''
Labrisomus
''Labrisomus'' is a genus of labrisomid blennies native to the western Atlantic ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Labrisomus conditus'' I. Sazima ( fr), Carvalho-Filho, ...
'' but has been raised to a genus in its own right.
Etymology
The generic name honours the
ichthyologist and
herpetologist
Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians ( gymnophiona)) and rep ...
Vernon E. Brock
Vernon may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Vernon County, New South Wales
Canada
*Vernon, British Columbia, a city
*Vernon, Ontario
France
* Vernon, Ardèche
*Vernon, Eure
United States
* Vernon, Alabama
* Vernon, Arizona
* Vernon, California
...
(1912-1971) who collected the
type of ''B. striatus''.
References
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Labrisomidae
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by Clark Hubbs