Pandaka lidwilli

Pandaka lidwilli, or the Lidwill's dwarf goby is a species of goby found in brackish and salt water in the mouths of rivers and maritime zones in Japan,Australia and Papua New Guinea.[1] The specific name honours the Australian anesthesiologist, cardiologist Mark C. Lidwill (1878-1969), who was co-inventor of the pacemaker, as well as being a saltwater angler, who while fishing for game fish observed this tiny goby and brought it to the attention of Allan Riverstone McCulloch who subsequently described it.[2]

Pandaka lidwilli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Pandaka
Species:
P. lidwilli
Binomial name
Pandaka lidwilli
(McCulloch, 1917)
Synonyms

Gobius lidwilli McCulloch, 1917

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Pandaka lidwilli" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 August 2018.


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