Dellichthys

Dellichthys is a small genus of clingfishes from the family Gobiesocidae which are endemic to New Zealand.^[2] It had been regarded as a monotypic genus but a second species was described in 2018.^[3]

Dellichthys
Dellichthys morelandi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Gobiesocidae
Subfamily:	Gobiesocinae
Genus:	Dellichthys Briggs, 1955
Type species
Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955[1]

Species

• Dellichthys morelandi Briggs, 1955 (New Zealand urchin clingfish)
• Dellichthys trnskii Conway, Stewart & Summers, 2018^[4]

Etymology

The name of this genus was copined by John C. Briggs in 1955^[1] and it honours the malacologist Richard Kenneth Dell (1920-2002), of the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, he had an interest in the shore fishes of New Zealand and providedmaterial for Briggs to study.^[5]