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Zappa confluentus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Oxudercinae
Genus:	Zappa Murdy, 1989
Species:	Z. confluentus
Binomial name
Zappa confluentus (T. R. Roberts, 1978)

Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, is a mudskipper endemic to New Guinea, where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers. It is found on mudflats adjacent to turbid rivers. This species can reach a length of 4.4 centimetres (1.7 in) SL.

Etymology

Zappa was named after musician Frank Zappa "for his articulate and sagacious defense of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution".

See also

• List of organisms named after famous people (born 1900–1949)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Zappa confluentus". FishBase. June 2013 version.
2. "My true love gave to me … a bat species!". CBS News. December 9, 2008. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008.
3. Murdy, E. O. (1989). "A taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the oxudercine gobies (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae)". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 11: 1–93. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.11.1989.93.

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