Alticus anjouanae

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Alticus anjouanae
Trois-Bassins, La Réunion
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Alticus
Species:
A. anjouanae
Binomial name
Alticus anjouanae
(Fourmanoir, 1955)
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Andamia anjouanae Fourmanoir, 1955
  • Damania anjouanae (Fourmanoir, 1955)

Alticus anjouanae is a species of combtooth blenny (family Blenniidae) in the genus Alticus. Fourmanoir originally placed this species in the genus Andamia.[4] It is a tropical blenny known from Comoros, Seychelles, and Réunion, in the western Indian Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 7.6 centimetres (2.99 inches).[5] Blennies in this species are oviparous and form distinct pairs when mating.[5] They feed primarily off of benthic algae and weeds.[5]

References

  1. ^ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Alticus anjouanae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T61935587A61935687. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T61935587A61935687.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Alticus anjouanae at Catalogue of Life.
  3. ^ Synonyms of Alticus anjouanae at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ^ Fourmanoir, P., 1955 [ref. 12271] Ichthyologie et pêche aux Comores. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. Série A, Biologie Animale v. 9: 187-239.
  5. ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Alticus anjouanae" in FishBase. October 2018 version.