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Genus of fishes

Rusichthys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Pseudochromidae
Subfamily: Congrogadinae
Genus: Rusichthys
Winterbottom, 1979
Type species
Rusichthys plesiomorphus
Winterbottom 1979

Rusichthys is a genus of ray-finned fishes, classified under the subfamily Congrogadinae, the eel blennies, part of the dottyback family, Pseudochromidae, from the western Indian Ocean. The generic name is a compound of the acronym RUSI which stands for Rhodes University Smith Institute and thus honours the South African ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith

Species

The following species are classified in the genus Rusichthys:

References

  1. Bailly N, ed. (2014). "Rusichthys Smith, 1952". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Rusichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (30 April 2018). "Subseries OVALENTARIA (Incertae sedis): Family PSEUDOCHROMIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). Rusichthys "Species in genus 'Rusichthys'". FishBase. June 2018 version.
Taxon identifiers
Rusichthys


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