Parapercis moki | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Labriformes |
Family: | Pinguipedidae |
Genus: | Parapercis |
Species: | P. moki |
Binomial name | |
Parapercis moki H. C. Ho & J. W. Johnson, 2013 | |
Parapercis moki, also known as Mok's sandperch, is a species of [[ray-finned fish]0 in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the north-western Pacific Ocean off Taiwan. [1]
Parapercis moki can reach a standard length of 10.4 centimetres (4.1 in). [2]
The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Hin-Kiu Mok (b. 1947) of the National Sun Ye-San University in Taiwan. [3]
Hugo Hermann Schauinsland was a German zoologist born in Rittergut Dedawe, Kreis Labiau, Province of Prussia.
Parapercis is a genus of sandperches belonging to the family Pinguipedidae.
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.
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