Parapercis okamurai

Species of fish

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

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

## Description

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

## Etymology

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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

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1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis okamurai". 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.

Taxon identifiers

Parapercis okamurai|

* Wikidata: Q3561229
* CoL: 4D7M7
* FishBase: 23555
* GBIF: 5209981
* iNaturalist: 619280
* IRMNG: 10576124
* ITIS: 630450
* OBIS: 277007
* Open Tree of Life: 3635244
* Plazi: 1B5955CC-AB6D-7E6F-0A35-24A66110CD11
* WoRMS: 277007
* ZooBank: 2CCFA3B3-8A61-4B99-8FA5-9D1AF713DD26

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