Author: dentatus Facciola, 1887

Apletodon dentatus dentatus Facciola, 1887

Diagnosis: head relatively short, 2.5-2.8 (m = 2.7) times in SL. Body depth 5.5-6.1 (m = 5.7) and disc length 3.6-4.6 (m = 4.1) times in SL. Dorsal finrays 5-6; anal finrays 5-7; pectoral finrays 21-24 (m = 22); caudal finrays 10-11. Colour: green with a darker mottling, or maroon spotted with mahogany, and large white dorsal spots. Adult male with a large black or purple spot on dorsal and anal fins and purple areas on throat. Size: to about 40 mm SL.

Habitat, Food, Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: Mediterranean and off European coast northwards to Scotland.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). Chaine, 1958: 191, pl. V.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Gobiesociformes
Family Gobiesocidae
Genus Apletodon
Species Apletodon dentatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Apletodon dentatus (Facciolà, 1887)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Apletodon dentatus dentatus Facciola, 1887

Synonyms:

Lepadogaster microcephalus microcephalus Brook, 1890
Lepadogaster stictopteryx Holt and Byrne, 1898
Apletodon microcephalus microcephalus Brook, 1890
Lepadogaster microcephalus Brook, 1890, Proc. Roy. phys. Soc. Edinburgh, 10: 166 ('West coast of Scotland').
Lepadogaster stictopteryx Holt & Byrne, 1899, Proc. zool. Soc. London: 589.
Lepadogaster stictopteryx: Byrne, 1902: 102.
Lepadogaster microcephalus: Fage, 1935, pl. 412 (Écosse, Manche, Golfe de Gascogne, Méditerranée).
Apletodon microcephalus: Briggs, 1955, 6: 26-27 Tortonese, 1967b: 4 Bini, 1968, 8: 131-132, col. fig. Wheeler, 1969: 575, fig.
Lepadogaster dentatus Facciolà, 1887, Nat. Sicil, 6: 25, pl. 3, fig. 1-2 (Sicily: Messina). Type lost.
Apletodon microcephalus microcephalus: see Clofnam, p. 651. Apletodon dentatus: Tortonese, 1975a: 549, fig. 235b.


Common names:

lépadogastère à petitetête [Fr]
small-headed clingfish [En]

Briggs, J. C. 1955. A Monograph of the Clingfishes (Order Xenopterygii). Stanford ichthyol. Bull, 6: iv+1-224, 114 fig., 15 maps.

Brook, G. 1890. Notes on the British species of Lepadogaster, and on the development of the vertical fins. Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., 10: 161-168.

Byrne, L. W. 1902. On Lepadogaster stictopteryx. Proc. zool Soc. Lond., 1: 102.

Chaine, J. 1958. Recherches sur les otolithes des Poissons. . . Bull. Cent. Étud Rech. scient. Biarritz, 2 (2): 159-241, 8 pl.

Facciolà, L. 1887a. Intorno a due Lepadogastrini ed un nuovo Nettastoma del mare di Sicilia. Lettera al Cristoforo Bellotti. Naturalista sicil., 6: 163-167.

Fage, L. 1935. Gobiesocidae. In: L. Joubin, ed., Faune ichthyol. Atlant. N., Copenhagen: fiches 409-412.

Holt, E. W. L.; Byrne, L. W. 1899. Exhibition of specimens and drawnings of a small sucker-fish of the genus Lepadogaster. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1898: 589-590.

Spartà, A. 1946b. Contributo alla conoscenza dello sviluppo dei Lepadogastrini. I. Uova e larve di Lepadogaster dentatus Facciola. Boll. Pesca Piscic. Idrobiol., An. XXII, (n.s.) 1 (2) :140-144, 1 pl.

Tortonese, E. 1967b. Un Pesce Plettognato nuovo per i mari italiani: Stephanolepis diaspros Fr. Br. Doriana, 4 (181): 4 p., 1 fig.

Tortonese, E. 1967c. Citeva note comparative privind pectii din Mediterrana ci din Marea Neagra. Buu. Inst. Cerc. pisc., 26 (4): 37-54, 4 fig., I pl.

Tortonese, E. 1975. Osteichthyes (pesci ossei). Parte seeconda. Faunaital. Il,Calderini, Bologna: pp. 1-536, 240 fig., 8 pl.

Wheeler, A. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto: i-xvii+1-163, 5+177 fig., +392 fig. (princ. sp.)+92 n. num. fig., 16 pl., maps.

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