Biology:Kai Island deepwater dragonet

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Kai Island deepwater dragonet
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Callionymiformes
Family: Callionymidae
Genus: Bathycallionymus
Nakabo, 1982
Species:
B. kaianus
Binomial name
Bathycallionymus kaianus
(Günther, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Callionymus kaianus Günther, 1880

The Kai Island deepwater dragonet (Bathycallionymus kaianus) is a species of dragonet native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, from Zanzibar and the coast of East Africa to the western Pacific Ocean including southern Japan, the East China Sea and the Banda Sea. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Bathycallionymus.[1] This species was formally described in 1880 as Callionymus kaianus by the Germany -born British zoologist Albert Günther with from a type collected off Kai Island in the Banda Sea during the Challenger expedition of 1872–1876. Some authorities still place this fish in the genus Callionymus.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2269540 entry