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Blenniidae

Description

Blenniidae

* Coryphoblennius galerita (Linnaeus, 1758) —Montagu's blenny

* Lipophrys pholis (Linnaeus, 1758) —Shanny

* Lipophrys trigloides (Valenciennes, 1836)

Recorded from Madeira by Zander in Whitehead et al. (1986: 1105) under the actual name, and by Bath in Quéro et al. (1990: 911-912) under the name Paralipophrys trigloides. Taxonomic decision of Almada et al. (2005).

* Ophioblennius atlanticus (Valenciennes, 1836) —Redlip blenny

* Parablennius incognitus (Bath, 1968)

Not mentioned from Madeira by Zander in Whitehead et al., 1986: 1107) but recorded from Madeira by Bath in Quéro et al. (1990: 909) on the basis of a letter by G.E. Maul (1974).

* Parablennius parvicornis (Valenciennes, 1836) —Rock-pool blenny

Almada et al. (2001: 412) tentatively synonymized

Parablennius parvicornis with P. sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1814). Almada et al. (2005), however, demonstrated that the two are different species due to significant genetic distance. We follow the usage of the latter paper and other authors (including Bath, 1996: 91) and consider P. parvicornis a valid species.

* Parablennius ruber (Valenciennes, 1836) —Portuguese blenny

Notes

Published as part of Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 1715 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274128

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Blenniidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Quero, J. C., Hureau, J. C., Karrer, C., Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (1990) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic. 3 volumes. Lisbon.
  • Almada, V. C., Oliveira, R. F., Goncalves, E. J., Almeida, A. J., Santos, R. S. & Wirtz, P. (2001) Patterns of diversity of the north-eastern Atlantic blenniid fish fauna (Pisces: Blenniidae). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 10, 411 - 422.
  • Bath, H. (1996) Beitrag zur Osteologie der Arten der Tribus Parablenniini. Die Beziehungen der Knochen des Schadeldaches zum Seitenorgan-System und zu den Weichteilbildungen der Kopfoberseite sowie die systematische Bedeutung der Befunde nebst Bemerkungen zu Lupinoblennius dispar Herre 1942. (Pisces: Blenniidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 76 (1 / 2), 65 - 92.