Zappa confluentus
Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, is a mudskipper endemic to New Guinea, where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers. It is found on mudflats adjacent to turbid rivers. This species can reach a length of 4.4 centimetres (1.7 in) SL.[1]
| Zappa confluentus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Oxudercinae |
| Genus: | Zappa Murdy, 1989 |
| Species: | Z. confluentus |
| Binomial name | |
| Zappa confluentus (T. R. Roberts, 1978) | |
Etymology
Zappa was named after musician Frank Zappa "for his articulate and sagacious defense of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution".[2][3]
gollark: Rodent.
gollark: Stupid Lua regexes...
gollark: Pretty sure that I *can't* since it's part of the code to be run, and also that's the same.
gollark: I tried gsubbing them to `\0` but that broke decoding somehow.
gollark: Because of all the `\000`s being quite long.
See also
- List of animals named after celebrities
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Zappa confluentus" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- "My true love gave to me … a bat species!". CBS News. December 9, 2008.
- Murdy, E. O. (1989). "A taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the oxudercine gobies (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae)". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 11: 1–93. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.11.1989.93.
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