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Parapercis shaoi

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Species of ray-finned fish

Parapercis shaoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Pinguipedidae
Genus: Parapercis
Species: P. shaoi
Binomial name
Parapercis shaoi
J. E. Randall, 2008

Parapercis shaoi is a ray-finned fish species in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in Taiwan. This species reaches a length of 15.3 cm (6.0 in).

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist and marine ecologist Kwang-Tsao Shao (b. 1951), of the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, who collected first type specimen from Taiwan in 1975.

References

  1. Randall, J.E., 2008. Six new sandperches of the genus Parapercis from the Western Pacific, with description of a neotype for P. maculata (Bloch and Schneider). The Raffles Bull. Zool. 19:159-178.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis shaoi". FishBase. February 2018 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
Taxon identifiers
Parapercis shaoi


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