Forsterygion

Forsterygion is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae native to coastal New Zealand, but also introduced to Tasmania, Australia.

Forsterygion
Yellow-and-black triplefin
Forsterygion flavonigrum
Striped triplefin Forsterygion varium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Subfamily: Tripterygiinae
Genus: Forsterygion
Whitley & Phillipps , 1939
Type species
Blennius varius
Forster, 1801[1]
Species

See text

Species

The following species are classified in this genus:[2]

Etymology

The name of this genus is an amalgam of Forster in honour of Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) – a naturalist aboard Captain Cook’s second voyage on HMS Resolution; he collected the type on this voyage, describing it and naming it Blennius varius – and -ygion, the second part of the genus Tripterygion, into which F. varius and F. nigripenne had been placed.[3]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Forsterygion". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Forsterygion in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 January 2019). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 May 2019.


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