Parapercis okamurai

Parapercis okamurai, the yellow sandperch, is a species of fish in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found off Taiwan and Japan.

Parapercis okamurai
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachiniformes
Family: Pinguipedidae
Genus: Parapercis
Species:
P. okamurai
Binomial name
Parapercis okamurai
Kamohara, 1960

Description

Parapercis okamurai can reach a standard length of 13.0 centimetres (5.1 in).[1]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Osama Okamura, of Kyoto University in Japan, who helped collect the type specimen with fellow graduate student Kunio Amaoka.[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Parapercis okamurai" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. 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 12 March 2022.
  • Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p.


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