Roche's snake blenny

Roche's snake blenny
Ophidion rochei from the Snake Island, Black Sea, Ukraine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Ophidiiformes
Family:Ophidiidae
Genus:Ophidion
Species: O. rochei
Binomial name
Ophidion rochei
Müller, 1845
Synonyms
  • Ophidion broussoneti Müller, 1845

Roche's snake blenny (Ophidion rochei) is a fish species in the genus Ophidion and the family Ophidiidae. Widespread in the Mediterranean Sea in western and northern regions, also in the Black Sea, Sea of Marmara and it has been recorded in the Atlantic.[1] Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 29.3 centimetres (11.5 in) long.[2] The specific name honours the Swiss physician and naturalist François-Etienne Delaroche (1780-1813), who wrote about the distinctive swim-bladder anatomy of Ophidion barbatum in 1809.[3]

Sources

  1. 1 2 Kara, H. (2011). "Ophidion rochei (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T194847A115522796. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2009). "Ophidion rochei" in FishBase. January 2009 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 March 2018). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 July 2018.



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