Platygillellus rubellulus

Platygillellus rubellulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Blennioidei
Family: Dactyloscopidae
Genus: Platygillellus
Species: P. rubellulus
Binomial name
Platygillellus rubellulus
(Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Gillellus rubellulus Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912[2]

Platygillellus rubellulus, the Shortfin sand stargazer, is a species of sand stargazer endemic native to the waters around the Galapagos Islands where it prefers to live in areas of fine-grained sediments at depths of from 0 to 20 metres (0 to 66 ft). It can reach a maximum length of 6.2 centimetres (2.4 in) SL.[3]

References

  1. Hastings, P. & Dominici-Arosemena, A. 2010. Platygillellus rubellulus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 29 June 2013.
  2. Kendall, William C.; Radcliffe, Lewis (1912). "Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XXV. The shore fishes". Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. 35 (3): 148–149. Plate 6, fig. 3.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Platygillellus rubellulus" in FishBase. April 2013 version.


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