''Callionymus hindsii'', Hinds' dragonet, is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of dragonet native to the

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and the western

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where it occurs at depths down to . This species grows to a length of TL. The

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is thought to most likely to be in honour of the British naval surgeon, naturalist and writer

Richard Brinsley Hinds Richard Brinsley Hinds FRCS (11 October 1811, Aldermaston, England25 May 1846, Swan River, Western Australia) was a British naval surgeon, botanist and malacologist. He sailed on the 1835–42 voyage by HMS ''Sulphur'' to explore the Pacific O ...

(1811-1846).

References

H Fish described in 1844 {{Callionymidae-stub