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 | |
|---|---|
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
- 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.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Petroscirtes pylei" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- 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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