Biology:Largemouth triplefin

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Largemouth triplefin
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Tripterygiidae
Genus: Ucla
Species:
U. xenogrammus
Binomial name
Ucla xenogrammus
Holleman, 1993[2]

The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla,[3] found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines , Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa Iti,[1] at depths of between 2 and 41 metres (6.6 and 134.5 ft). Its length is up to about 47 millimetres (1.9 in).[4] The generic name was coined by ichthyologist Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in his unpublished dissertation of 1959 from the University of California Los Angeles and it is the initials of that institution,[5] it was formally applied by Holleman in 1993.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Williams, J.; Holleman, W. (2014). "Ucla xenogrammus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T178892A1544399. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T178892A1544399.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178892/1544399. Retrieved 19 November 2021. 
  2. Holleman, Wouter (1993). "Ucla xenogrammus, a new genus and species of Indo- Pacific fishes (Perciformes, Tripterygiidae)". J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication 55: 1–10. ISSN 0075-2088. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271738785. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Ucla". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=10335. 
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Ucla xenogramma" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  5. "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Families TRIPTERYGIIDAE and DACTYLOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 29 January 2019. http://www.etyfish.org/blenniiformes1/. Retrieved 1 June 2019. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q20088739 entry