Whitelined toadfish

Whitelined toadfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Batrachoidiformes
Family:Batrachoididae
Genus:Sanopus
Species: S. greenfieldorum
Binomial name
Sanopus greenfieldorum
Collette, 1983

The whitelined toadfish (Sanopus greenfieldorum) is a species of fish in the Batrachoididae family. It is endemic to Belize.[2] The specific name honours David W. Greenfield and Teresa Arambula Greenfield, who when they collected type specimen though that it might belong to an undescribed species and so sent it to Bruce Baden Collette to be described.[3]

References

  1. Aiken, K.A.; Collette, B. & Polanco Fernandez, A. (2015). "Sanopus greenfieldorum". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2015: e.T19897A16643885. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T19897A16643885.en. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. Roberts, C. 1996. Sanopus greenfieldorum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 August 2007.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (26 July 2017). "Order BATRACHOIDIFORMES (Toadfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 July 2018.


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