| Parapercis ramsayi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Pinguipedidae |
| Genus: | Parapercis |
| Species: | P. ramsayi |
| Binomial name | |
| Parapercis ramsayi Steindachner, 1883 | |
Parapercis ramsayi, the spotted grubfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean around southern Western Australia and South Australia.
Parapercis ramsayi reaches a total length of 10.0 cm (3.9 in). [1]
The fish is named almost certainly in honour of zoologist Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842-1916), the Curator of the Australian Museum. [2]
Edward Pierson Ramsay was an Australian zoologist who specialised in ornithology.
Neville Coleman OAM was an Australian naturalist, underwater nature photographer, writer, publisher and educator.
Parapercis is a genus of sandperches belonging to the family Pinguipedidae.
Gerald Robert "Gerry" Allen is an American-born Australian ichthyologist. His career began in 1963, when he spent a semester at the University of Hawaii, where he also received a PhD in marine zoology in 1971. In 1972, Allen wrote his doctoral thesis on the systematics and biology of the anemone fish.
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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Parapercis colemani is a ray-finned fish species in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found at Norfolk Island.. This species reaches a length of 8.2 cm (3.2 in).
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