{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status= VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |date=2014 |title=''Omobranchus smithi'' |volume=2014 |article-number=e.T48342284A48353451 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342284A48353451.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Omobranchus smithi | authority = (Rao, 1974) | synonyms = *''Cruantus smithi'' Rao, 1974 *''Omobranchus meniscus'' <small>Springer & Gomon, 1975</small> }}
'''''Omobranchus smithi''''' is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans.<ref>{{FishBase species |genus= Omobranchus|species= smithi| month = February | year = 2013}}</ref>
==Etymology== The specific name honours the South African chemist and ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897-1968).<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes2/ | title = Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | access-date = 7 April 2019 | date = 26 October 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>
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smithi Category:Taxa named by Visweswara Rao Category:Fish described in 1974
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