Scombrops gilberti
Scombrops gilberti, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a gnomefish from the family Scombropidae. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean where it has been recorded off Hokkaido South to Suruga Bay. It grows To a maximum total length of 120 centimetres (47 in).[1] this species was first formally described as Telescopias gilberti in 1901 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) and John Otterbein Snyder (1867-1943) with the type locality given as the sea between Misaki, Chiba and Oshima Island in Japan.[2] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert (1859-1928).[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Scombropidae |
| Genus: | Scombrops |
| Species: | S. gilberti |
| Binomial name | |
| Scombrops gilberti | |
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Telescopias gilberti Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Scombrops gilberti" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Telescopias gilberti". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- Jordan, D. S. & J. O. Snyder (1901). "A review of the cardinal fishes of Japan". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 23 (1240): 891–913.
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