Acheilognathus tabira jordani

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Acheilognathus tabira jordani
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Genus: Acheilognathus
Species:
Subspecies:
A. t. jordani
Trinomial name
Acheilognathus tabira jordani

Acheilognathus tabira jordani is a subspecies of Acheilognathus tabira .

Named in honor of David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), who contributed greatly to Japanese ichthyology, including original description of A. tabira. [2]


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References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Acheilognathus tabira+jordani" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.