Lentipes whittenorum

Lentipes whittenorum is a species of goby endemic to marine, brackish and fresh waters of Indonesia.[2] The specific name jointly honours the biologists Anthony (Tony) and Jane Whitten, who assisted the describer Kottelat in a number projects in Indonesia, particularly in the survey of Bali, an island on which this goby occurs.[3]

Lentipes whittenorum

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Lentipes
Species:
L. whittenorum
Binomial name
Lentipes whittenorum
Watson & Kottelat, 1994

References

  1. Jaafar, Z. 2019. Lentipes whittenorum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T11502A91080832. Downloaded on 24 July 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Lentipes whittenorum" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (6 December 2017). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
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