''Lipophrys'' is a small genus of

combtooth blennies Combtooth blennies are blenniiformids; percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 genera. Combtooth blennies are found in tropica ...

found in Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of 57 genera in the family Blenniidae. The generic name is made up of the Greek words meaning "want" or "absence" and meaning "eyebrow" referring to the lack of any cirri over the eyes in the type species ''L. pholis''.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * ''

Lipophrys pholis ''Lipophrys pholis'', commonly known as shanny, also known as the smooth blenny or common blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny. It matures at two years of age. Distributed in the Eastern Atlantic from the southern Norway to Morocco and Madei ...

'' ( Linnaeus, 1758) (Shanny) * '' Lipophrys trigloides'' ( Valenciennes, 1836) A third species was described from the Adriatic Sea by the

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ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

François Charrousset ( fr) from two specimens and given the name '' Lipophrys heuvelmansi''. However, in 2015 a comparison of these specimens with another species of combtooth blenny showed that ''L. heuvelsmani'' was a

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of ''

Microlipophrys canevae ''Microlipophrys canevae'' is a species of combtooth blenny found in the northeast Atlantic Ocean near Portugal and in the Mediterranean Sea. This species grows to a length of TL. A previously undescribed species of combtooth blenny was desc ...

''. Another species '' Lipophrys adriaticus'' is recognised by some authorities but

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classifies this species as ''

Microlipophrys adriaticus The Adriatic blenny, ''Microlipophrys adriaticus'', is a species of combtooth blenny widespread in the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Aegean Sea, also known from the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea The Black Sea is a marg ...

''.

References

Salarinae {{Blenniidae-stub