''Alabes'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

clingfish Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the order Gobiesociformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species in deeper seas or ...

es endemic to Australia along the coasts of the Indian and

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

s. They are small, eel-like fishes with narrow tapering bodies and small heads.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: * '' Alabes bathys'' Hutchins, 2006 * '' Alabes brevis'' V. G. Springer & T. H. Fraser, 1976 * '' Alabes dorsalis'' ( J. Richardson, 1845) (common shore-eel) * '' Alabes elongata'' Hutchins & S. M. Morrison, 2004 * '' Alabes gibbosa'' Hutchins & S. M. Morrison, 2004 * '' Alabes hoesei'' V. G. Springer & T. H. Fraser, 1976 (dwarf shore-eel) * '' Alabes obtusirostris'' Hutchins & S. M. Morrison, 2004 * '' Alabes occidentalis'' Hutchins & S. M. Morrison, 2004 * '' Alabes parvula'' ( McCulloch, 1909) (pygmy shore-eel) * ''

Alabes scotti ''Alabes'' is a genus of clingfishes endemic to Australia along the coasts of the Indian and Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north ...

'' Hutchins & S. M. Morrison, 2004 * '' Alabes springeri'' Hutchins, 2006

References

Gobiesocidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Hippolyte Cloquet {{Gobiesociformes-stub