# Brockius

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***Brockius*** is a genus of [labrisomid](/source/Labrisomid) [blennies](/source/Blenniiformes) from the waters of the eastern Pacific and the western Atlantic where they are associated with reefs and seaweed-covered rocks.

## Species

The species in the genus are:[2]

- *[Brockius albigenys](/source/Brockius_albigenys)* ([Beebe](/source/William_Beebe) & [Tee-Van](/source/John_Tee-Van), 1928) (White-cheek blenny)
- *[Brockius nigricinctus](/source/Brockius_nigricinctus)* ([Howell-Rivero](/source/Luis_Howell-Rivero)), 1936 (Spotcheek blenny)
- *[Brockius striatus](/source/Brockius_striatus)* ([C. L. Hubbs](/source/Carl_Leavitt_Hubbs), 1953) (Green blenny)

## Taxonomy

The name *Brockius* was coined by Clark L. Hubbs as a [subgenus](/source/Subgenus) of *[Labrisomus](/source/Labrisomus)* but has been raised to a genus in its own right.[3]

## Etymology

The generic name honours the [ichthyologist](/source/Ichthyologist) and [herpetologist](/source/Herpetologist) [Vernon E. Brock](/source/Vernon_E._Brock) (1912-1971) who collected the [type](/source/Type_(biology)) of *B. striatus*.[4]

## References

1. Hsiu-Chin Lin & Philip A. Hastings (2013). "Phylogeny and biogeography of a shallow water fish clade (Teleostei: Blenniiformes)". *BMC Evolutionary Biology*. **13** (210): 210. [doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-210](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-210). [PMC 3849733](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849733). [PMID 24067147](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24067147)

1. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (10 November 2018). ["Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families CLINIDAE, LABRISOMIDAE and CHAENOPSIDAE"](http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes3/). *ETYFish Fish Name Etymology Database*. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 April 2019.

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