Alticus

Genus of fishes

Alticus

Alticus arnoldorum hopping
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Blenniiformes
Family:  | Blenniidae
Subfamily:  | Salarinae
Genus:  | Alticus
Lacepède, 1800 [1]
Type species
Blennius saliens

Lacepède, 1800[2]

Synonyms

* Rupiscartes Swainson, 1839
* Damania Smith, 1959

Alticus is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is one of 57 genera in the family Blenniidae.

## Species

[edit]

There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:[3]

* Alticus anjouanae (Fourmanoir, 1955)
* Alticus arnoldorum (Curtiss, 1938) (Pacific leaping blenny)
* Alticus kirkii (Günther, 1868) (Kirk's blenny)
* Alticus magnusi (Klausewitz, 1964)
* Alticus monochrus Bleeker, 1869
* Alticus montanoi (Sauvage, 1880)
* Alticus orientalis Tomiyama, 1955
* Alticus saliens (J. R. Forster, 1788) (Leaping blenny)
* Alticus sertatus (Garman, 1903)
* Alticus simplicirrus Smith-Vaniz & V. G. Springer, 1971 (Marquesan rockstripper)

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Bailly N, ed. (2012). "Alticus Lacepède, 1800". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Alticus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Alticus". FishBase. June 2024 version.

## External links

[edit]

* Data related to Alticus at Wikispecies
* Media related to Alticus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Alticus|

* Wikidata: Q2906827
* Wikispecies: Alticus
* AFD: Alticus
* BOLD: 140697
* CoL: C8S82
* EoL: 46573744
* GBIF: 9214136
* iNaturalist: 86358
* ITIS: 171275
* NCBI: 879681
* Open Tree of Life: 495259
* WoRMS: 204406

This Blenniidae article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template