Apletodon pellegrini
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiesociformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Genus: | Apletodon |
| Species: | A. pellegrini
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| Binomial name | |
| Apletodon pellegrini (Chabanaud, 1925)
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The Chubby Clingfish Apletodon pellegrini is a species of clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae. The species is found in the Eastern Atlantic, from Madeira, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Annobon Islands, mainland shore from Cape Blanco south to Port Alfred, South Africa. This species reaches a length of 5.0 cm (2.0 in).[2]
Etymology
The cling fish is named in honor of French ichthyologist Jacques Pellegrin (1873-1944).[3]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Apletodon pellegrini". FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Apletodon pellegrini". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- Briggs, J.C., 1990. Gobiesocidae. p. 474-478. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1.