Little clingfish
The little clingfish (Parvicrepis parvipinnis) is a species of clingfish found in reef environments along the coast of Australia. This species grows to a length of 3 centimetres (1.2 in) TL. This species is the only known member of its genus.[1] This species was described by Edgar Ravenswood Waite as Diplocrepis parvipinnis in 1906 with a type locality of Long Bay, Sydney, New South Wales. In 1931 Gilbert Percy Whitley raised the monotypic genus Parvicrepis for this species.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiesociformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiesocinae |
| Genus: | Parvicrepis Whitley, 1931 |
| Species: | P. parvipinnis |
| Binomial name | |
| Parvicrepis parvipinnis (Waite, 1906) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Diplocrepis parvipinnis Waite, 1906 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Parvicrepis parvipinnis" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
- Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Diplocrepis parvipinnis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
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