Ryukyupercis

Ryukyupercis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Trachiniformes
Family:	Pinguipedidae
Genus:	Ryukyupercis; Imamura & Yoshino, 2007
Species:	R. gushikeni
Binomial name
	Ryukyupercis gushikeni; (Yoshino, 1975)[1]
Synonyms
	Parapercis gushikeni Yoshino, 1975

Ryukyupercis is a monotypic genus of percomorph fish from the family Pinguipedidae, the sandperches. The only species in the genus, Ryukyupercis gushikeni, the rosy grubfish, is found in the Indo-Pacific from Japan to north western Australia.^[2] The generic name is a compound of Ryukyu after the Ryukyu Islands where the type specimen was collected and "percis" a suffix for many of the genera in the Pinguipediae,^[2] the specific name honours Mr Soko Gushiken, a who gave the describer of the species, Tetsuo Yoshino, many specimens.^[3]

References

↑ WoRMS (2008). Bailly N, ed. "Ryukyupercis gushikeni Yoshino, 1975". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Ryukyupercis gushikeni" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
↑ Tetsuo Yoshino (1975). "Parapercis gushikeni A new Mugiloid Fish from the RyuKyu Islands" (PDF). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 22 (5): 343–346.

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[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2008). Bailly N, ed. "Ryukyupercis gushikeni Yoshino, 1975". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 June 2018.

[FishBase-2] 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Ryukyupercis gushikeni" in FishBase. February 2018 version.

[Yoshino-3] Tetsuo Yoshino (1975). "Parapercis gushikeni A new Mugiloid Fish from the RyuKyu Islands" (PDF). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 22 (5): 343–346.