Gyrinomimus grahami

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Gyrinomimus grahami
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cetomimiformes
Family: Cetomimidae
Genus: Gyrinomimus
Species:
G. grahami
Binomial name
Gyrinomimus grahami

Gyrinomimus grahami is a flabby whalefish of the genus Gyrinomimus , found in all the southern oceans. [1]

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Size

This species reaches a length of 31.0 cm (12.2 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of David H. Graham, a New Zealand ichthyologist and marine biologist. [3]

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Phillip Clarence Heemstra was an American-South African ichthyologist. He was born in Melrose Park, Illinois, United States as the son of Clarence William Heemstra and his wife, Lydia. He attended school in Ottawa, Illinois, and completed a B.Sc. Zoology in 1963 at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois, as well as his MSc degree (1968) and doctorate (1974) in marine biology at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. He moved to live in South Africa in 1978.

References

  1. Paxton, J.R. and O. Gon, 1990. Cetomimidae. p. 222-225. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gyrinomimus grahami". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order BERYCIFORMES". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 March 2023.