The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·88702GenusActinopterygii13 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Spiny-rayed fishes
  6. ›Blennies, Damselfishes and Allies
  7. ›Dottybacks
  8. ›Eelblennies
Halidesmus
Plate 1 of 1. (c) carel van der Colff, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by carel van der Colff · via iNaturalist

Halidesmus

Halidesmus is a genus of ray-finned fishes, the type genus of the subfamily Congrogadinae, the eel blennies, part of the dottyback family, Pseudochromidae. They are found in the western Indian Ocean as far east as India, with one species extending marginally into the south-east Atlantic Ocean.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

South African Snakelet

speciesHalidesmus scapularis

Halidesmus thomaseni

speciesHalidesmus thomaseni

Rooster snakelet

speciesHalidesmus coccus

Socotra Snakelet

speciesHalidesmus socotraensis

Halidesmus polytretus

speciesHalidesmus polytretus

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Halidesmus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88702.