''Callionymus kailolae'', Kailola's deepwater dragonet or the Northwestern ocellated 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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off of western

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where this deep-water species is found at depths of from . The

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honours Patricia Kailola of Newnham, Tasmania who published a photograph of the new species, "in appreciation of her interest in callionymid fish research".

References

K Fish described in 2000 Taxa named by Ronald Fricke {{Callionymidae-stub