Parapercis Okamurai

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

Short description: Species of fish

Parapercis okamurai, the yellow sandperch, is a fish species in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in Taiwan and Japan. This species can reach a length of 13.0 centimetres (5.1 in) TL. ^[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

↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parapercis okamurai" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
↑ "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/uranoscopiformes/.

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.

Wikidata ☰ Q3561229 entry

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[1] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parapercis okamurai" in FishBase. June 2013 version.

[ETYFish-2] "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/uranoscopiformes/.