Parapercis moki

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Parapercis moki
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Pinguipedidae
Genus: Parapercis
Species:
P. moki
Binomial name
Parapercis moki

Parapercis moki, also known as Mok's sandperch, is a species of ray-finned fish in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the north-western Pacific Ocean off Taiwan. [1]

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Description

Parapercis moki can reach a standard length of 10.4 centimetres (4.1 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Hin-Kiu Mok (b. 1947) of the National Sun Ye-San University in Taiwan. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Ho, H.-C. and J.W. Johnson, 2013. Redescription of Parapercis macrophthalma (Pietschmann, 1911) and description of a new species of Parapercis (Pisces: Pinguipedidae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 3620(2):273-282.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis moki". FishBase . June 2013 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 March 2022.


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