''Dellichthys'' is a small genus of

clingfishes Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the order Gobiesociformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species in deeper seas or ...

from the

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Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand. It had been regarded as a

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genus but a second species was described in 2018.

Species

*'' Dellichthys morelandi'' Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish) *'' Dellichthys trnskii'' Conway, Stewart &

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, 2018

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

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in Wellington, New Zealand, he had an interest in the shore fishes of New Zealand and providedmaterial for Briggs to study.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14444434 Gobiesocidae Endemic marine fish of New Zealand