Yellow weaver (fish)

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Yellow weaver
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Pinguipedidae
Genus: Parapercis
Species:
P. gilliesii
Binomial name
Parapercis gilliesii
(Hutton, 1879)
Synonyms

Percis gilliesiiHutton, 1879

The yellow weaver, Parapercis gilliesii, is a sandperch, a species of marine ray-finned fish in the genus Parapercis found only around New Zealand.

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