Ogilbia suarezae

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Ogilbia suarezae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Bythitidae
Genus: Ogilbia
Species:
O. suarezae
Binomial name
Ogilbia suarezae

Ogilbia suarezae is a species of fish of the genus Ogilbia found in the shallows of the Caribbean Sea. It is yellowish in color and is livebearing. [2]

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Etymology

It was named in honor of Susan Suarez, a professor at Cornell University, in recognition of her careful study of the reproductive biology of the related fish Ogilbia cayorum . [3]

References

  1. ↑ Robins, R.H. & Carpenter, K.E. (2015). "Ogilbia suarezae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2015: e.T190355A16510537. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190355A16510537.en .
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ogilbia suarezae". FishBase . February 2018 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (2017). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families BYTHITIDAE, DINEMATICHTHYIDAE and PARABROTULIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 July 2018.


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