Petroscirtes pylei

Petroscirtes pylei, the twilight fangblenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western central Pacific ocean, around Fiji. This species reaches a length of 4.1 centimetres (1.6 in) SL.[2] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Richard L. Pyle of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.[3]

Petroscirtes pylei

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Genus: Petroscirtes
Species:
P. pylei
Binomial name
Petroscirtes pylei
Smith-Vaniz, 2005

References

  1. Williams, J.; Smith-Vaniz, W. & Hastings, P. (2014). "Petroscirtes pylei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342391A48363953. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342391A48363953.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Petroscirtes pylei" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 April 2019.


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