Ecsenius aroni

Ecsenius aroni, known commonly as the Aron's blenny,[2] is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the western Indian ocean, from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba south to Djetta in Saudi Arabia and Towartit Reef near Port Sudan.[2] The specific name honours the oceanographer William Aron of the Smithsonian Institution.[3]

Ecsenius aroni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Ecsenius
Species:
E. aroni
Binomial name
Ecsenius aroni

References
  1. Williams, J.T. (2014). "Ecsenius aroni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342449A48400961. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342449A48400961.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Ecsenius aroni" in FishBase. October 2018 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 March 2019.


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