Pungtungia shiraii

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Pungtungia shiraii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Suborder: Cyprinoidei
Family: Gobionidae
Genus: Pungtungia
Species:
P. shiraii
Binomial name
Pungtungia shiraii
Ōshima, 1957

Pungtungia shiraii is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons. [1] This species is found in Japan. [2]

Etymology

Named in honor of Kunihiko Shirai, Bureau of Game and Hunting of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, who obtained a collection of fishes downstream of the Tama River, including type of this one, and "kindly forwarded to the writer for identification". [3]

References

  1. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pungtungia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pungtungia shiraii". FishBase . November 2016 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 March 2021.


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