Coral Sea gregory
| Coral Sea gregory | |
|---|---|
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | Pomacentridae |
| Genus: | Stegastes |
| Species: | S. gascoynei |
| Binomial name | |
| Stegastes gascoynei (Whitley, 1964) | |
The Coral Sea gregory, Stegastes gascoynei, is a damselfish of the family Pomacentridae in the western Pacific Ocean at depths between 1 and 30 m. Its length is up to 15 cm.[2] The specific name commemorates the Royal Australian Navy River class frigate HMAS Gascoyne from which the type specimen was collected.[3]
References
- ↑ Fricke, R. (2010). "Stegastes gascoynei (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T154732A115228454. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Stegastes gascoynei" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (29 August 2018). "Subseries OVALENTARIA (Incertae sedis): Family POMACENTRIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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