Plagiotremus goslinei

Plagiotremus goslinei
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Blenniidae
Genus:	Plagiotremus
Species:	P. goslinei
Binomial name
	Plagiotremus goslinei; (Strasburg, 1956)
Synonyms
	Runula goslinei Strasburg, 1956

Plagiotremus goslinei, the biting blenny, Gosline's fangblenny, scale-eating blenny or the scale-eating fang blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. This species reaches a length of 6.3 centimetres (2.5 in) SL.[2] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist William A. Gosline (1915-2002) of the University of Hawai‘i.[3]

References

Williams, J.T. "Plagiotremus goslinei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342392A48405050. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342392A48405050.en.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Plagiotremus goslinei" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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 7 April 2019.

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[1] Williams, J.T. "Plagiotremus goslinei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342392A48405050. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342392A48405050.en.

[2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Plagiotremus goslinei" in FishBase. February 2013 version.

[ETYFish-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 7 April 2019.