- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- PERCIFORMES
- BLENNIIDAE
- Stanulus
- seychellensis
Seychelles Blenny, Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959
Other Names: Seychelle's Blenny
A Seychelles Blenny, Stanulus seychellensis, at Guam. Source: David Burdick / http://guamreeflife.com. License: All rights reserved
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Bray, D.J. 2020, Stanulus seychellensis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 03 Oct 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1092
Seychelles Blenny, Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959
More Info
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Distribution |
Far northern Great Barrier Reef, to Escape Reef, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific. Inhabits the surge zone along reef crests |
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Etymology |
The species is named for the type locality, the Seychelles. |
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Species Citation |
Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959, Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 14: 246, pl. 17(13). Type locality: La Digue, Seychelles. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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Resources |
Seychelles Blenny, Stanulus seychellensis Smith 1959
References
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Hutchins, J.B. 1994. A survey of the nearshore reef fish fauna of Western Australia's west and south coasts — The Leeuwin Province. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 46: 1-66 figs 1-6
Myers, R.F. 1989. Micronesian Reef Fishes. Guam : Coral Graphics 298 pp.
Schultz, L.P. & Chapman, W.M. 1960. Subfamily Salarinae. pp. 302-382 in Schultz, L.P., Chapman, W.M., Lachner, E.A. & Woods, L.P. (eds). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. Vol. 2. Families Mullidae through Stromateidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 202(2): 1-438, figs 91-132, pls 75-123 (described as Fallacirripectes minutus) See ref at BHL
Smith, J.L.B. 1959. Fishes of the families Blenniidae and Salariidae of the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 14: 227-252 figs 1-16 pls 14-18 http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018775
Springer, V.G. 1968. The Indo-Pacific bleniid fish genus Stanulus with description of a new species from the Great Barrier Reef (Blenniidae; Blenniinae; Salariini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81(15): 111-122 figs 1-2 See ref at BHL
Springer, V.G. 2001. Blenniidae. pp. 3538-3546 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218.
Williams, J.T. 2014. Stanulus seychellensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T48342292A48362822. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342292A48362822.en. Downloaded on 24 October 2020.
