Parapercis shaoi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Pinguipedidae |
| Genus: | Parapercis |
| Species: | P. shaoi
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| Binomial name | |
| Parapercis shaoi J. E. Randall, 2008
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Parapercis shaoi is a ray-finned fish species in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in Taiwan.[1] This species reaches a length of 15.3 cm (6.0 in).[2]
Etymology
[edit]The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist and marine ecologist Kwang-Tsao Shao (b. 1951), of the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, who collected first type specimen from Taiwan in 1975.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Randall, J.E., 2008. Six new sandperches of the genus Parapercis from the Western Pacific, with description of a neotype for P. maculata (Bloch and Schneider). The Raffles Bull. Zool. 19:159-178.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis shaoi". FishBase. February 2018 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
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