Centrodraco ornatus

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Centrodraco ornatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Draconettidae
Genus: Centrodraco
Species:
C. otohime
Binomial name
Centrodraco otohime
Nakabo & Yamamoto, 1980

Centrodraco otohime is a species of fish in the family Draconettidae, the slope dragonets. It is found in the north-western Pacific Ocean. [1]

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Description

This species reaches a length of 11.0 cm (4.3 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named for Otohime, the Princess of the Dragon Palace, Ryūgū-jō, which is at the bottom of the sea, in the Japanese fairy tale Urashima Tarō. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text).
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Centrodraco otohime". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families DACTYLOPTERIDAE, PEGASIDAE, CALLIONYMIDAE, DRACONETTIDAE and MULLIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 31 January 2023.


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