Forsterygion | |
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Yellow-and-black triplefin Forsterygion flavonigrum | |
Striped triplefin Forsterygion varium | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Blenniiformes |
Family: | Tripterygiidae |
Subfamily: | Tripterygiinae |
Genus: | Forsterygion Whitley & Phillipps , 1939 |
Type species | |
Blennius varius Forster, 1801[1]
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Species | |
See text |
Forsterygion is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae native to coastal New Zealand, but also introduced to Tasmania, Australia.
The following species are classified in this genus:[2]
The name of this genus is an amalgam of Forster in honour of Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) – a naturalist aboard Captain Cook’s second voyage on HMS Resolution; he collected the type on this voyage, describing it and naming it Blennius varius – and -ygion, the second part of the genus Tripterygion, into which F. varius and F. nigripenne had been placed.[3]