Acanthemblemaria johnsoni

The white-cheeked blenny (Acanthemblemaria johnsoni) is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in coral reefs around Tobago, in the western central Atlantic ocean.[2] The specific name honours the ichthyologist G. David Johnson Curator of the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution.[3]

Acanthemblemaria johnsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Chaenopsidae
Genus: Acanthemblemaria
Species:
A. johnsoni
Binomial name
Acanthemblemaria johnsoni
Almany & C. C. Baldwin, 1996

References

  1. Williams, J.T. (2014). "Acanthemblemaria johnsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T47141401A48407655. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T47141401A48407655.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Acanthemblemaria johnsoni" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE". ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 April 2019.


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