Aspasma
Aspasma minima is a species of clingfish found in the Pacific Ocean near the shores of southern Japan. This species grows to 5 cm (2.0 in) in standard length. This species is the only species in the monotypic genus Aspasma.[1] This species was described in 1887 by the German zoologist and paleontologist Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein from a type collected at a depth of 100-150 fathoms in Sagami Bay, Japan.[2]
| Aspasma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiesociformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Genus: | Aspasma D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1902 |
| Species: | A. minima |
| Binomial name | |
| Aspasma minima (Döderlein, 1887) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lepadogaster minimus Döderlein, 1887 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Aspasma minima" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Lepadogaster minimus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
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