Alticus montanoi

Alticus montanoi, Montano's rockskipper, is a species of combtooth blenny (family Blenniidae) in the genus Alticus.[4] It is a tropical blenny, and is known from the South China Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean.[4] The blennies are oviparous, and form distinct pairs when mating.[5] They feed primarily off of benthic algae.[6]

Alticus montanoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Alticus
Species:
A. montanoi
Binomial name
Alticus montanoi
(Sauvage, 1880)
Synonyms[2]
  • Salarias montanoi Sauvage, 1880[3]

Etymology

The specific name honors the collector of the type, the French ethnologist Joseph Montaro.[7]

References
  1. Williams, J.T. (2014). "Alticus montanoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48321164A48361844. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48321164A48361844.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Synonyms of Alticus montanoi at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Sauvage, H.E., 1880 [ref. 19970] Description de quelques Blennioïdes de la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 4: 215-220.
  4. Alticus montanoi Archived 2012-04-29 at the Wayback Machine at www.fishbase.org.
  5. Reproduction summary for Alticus montanoi at www.fishbase.org.
  6. Food items reported for Alticus montanoi at www.fishbase.org.
  7. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 24 February 2019.


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