Flexor (fish)

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Flexor
Flexor incus (10.3897-zookeys.786.28539) Figure 1.jpg
Flexor incus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiesociformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Genus: Flexor
Species:
F. incus
Binomial name
Flexor incus
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Flexor is a genus of clingfish from the family Gobiesocidae. It is a monotypic genus, the sole member of which Flexor incus was described in 2018 by Kevin W. Conway, Andrew L. Stewart and Adam P. Summers from type specimens collected on Raoul Island and in the Kermadec Islands. An unknown species of clingfish was known to occur in the Kermadecs and it had been provisionally assigned to the genus Aspasmogaster but when examined the specimens proved to belong to a new genus which they name Flexor in reference to the flexibility of clingfishes and incus which means "anvil", a reference to the anvil like shape of the type locality, Raoul Island.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Flexor". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. ^ Conway KW; Stewart AL; Summers AP (2018). "A new genus and species of clingfish from the Rangitāhua Kermadec Islands of New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)". ZooKeys (786): 75–104. doi:10.3897/zookeys.786.28539. PMC 6168618. PMID 30283237.
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