Author: Chabanaud, 1925

Apletodon pellegrini Chabanaud, 1925

Diagnosis: head relatively long, 2.3 times in SL. Body depth 5.1-5.2, and disc length 3.3- 3.5 times in SL. Dorsal finrays 6; anal finrays 5; pectoral finrays 22-25 (m = 23); caudal finrays 10-12. Colour: carmine red with traces of greenish pigment. Dorsal and anal fins with reddish oblique lines which become transverse on caudal fin. Size: to 32 mm

Habitat, Food, Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: Madeira and southwards from the Canaries and Cape Verde Is. to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

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

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Apletodon pellegrini (Chabanaud, 1925)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Apletodon pellegrini Chabanaud, 1925

Synonyms:

Lepadogaster (Mirbelia) Pellegrini Chabanaud, 1925, Bull. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 31: 283, 286 (Senegal, Cape Blanco, Madeira, Cape Verde Islands). Syntypes:. MNHN no. 07-257 (Senegal), 25-239, 25-240 (Cape Blanco), 25-241 (misidentified= Diplecogaster bimaculata).
Lepadogaster (Mirbelia) pellegrini: Chabanaud & Monod, 1935: 285 (Cape Blanco, Canaries, Cape Verde Islands, Madeira).
Lepadogaster pellegrini: Fowler, 1936: 1079.
Mirbelia sp. Cadenat, 1951: 280 (Dakar), fig. 223-224.
Apletodon pellegrini: Briggs, 1955, 6: 27 Penrith, 1969, 55: 125-129 (Lambert's Bay to Port Elizabeth, S. Africa), fig. 2.
Apletodon knysnaensis Smith, 1964a, Ichth. Bull. Rhodes Univ., (30): 590, pl. 93, 96-97.


Common names:

none

*Chabanaud, P. 1925. Lepadogaster (Mirbelia) bimaculatus Penn., microcephalus Brook, et Pellegrini, nov. sp. (Pisces Gobiesocidae). Bull Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 32: 283-287.

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

Cadenat, J. 1951. Poissons de mer du Sénégal, Initiations africaines, III, Inst. fr. Afr. noire, Dakar, 1950 [1951]: 345 p., 241 fig.

Chabanaud, P.; Monod, Th. 1927. Les Poissons de Port-Étienne, contribution à la faune ichthyologique de la Région du Cap Blanc (Mauritanie Francaise). Bull. Com. Étud. hist. scient. Afr. occid. fr., 1926, 9: pp. 225-287, 33 fig., 3 pl.

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-15. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: vii+606 p., fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18,1936: 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Hallday, R. G. 1969a. Distribution and regional variation of Argentina sphyraena [Pisces: Isospondyli]. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K, 49: 189-208.

Penrith, M. L. 1969. Apletodon pellegrini (Chabanaud) and other clingfishes (Pisces: Gobiesocidae) from South West Africa. Ann. 5. Afr. Mus., 55 (2): 123-134, 5 fig.

Smith, J. L. B. 1964a. The clingfishes of the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyol. Bull. Rhodes Univ., (30): 581-596, 6 pl., 1 fig.

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