''Chromis lubbocki'' is a species of marine fish of the family
Pomacentridae
Pomacentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes. This family were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being ''incertae sedis'' in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Perco ...
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This fish grows to 12.5 cm maximal length. It occurs in the eastern
Atlantic Ocean
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, off the coast of
Cape Verde
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The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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honours the
marine biologist
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many scientific classification, phyla, family (biology), families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others th ...
Hugh Roger Lubbock (1951-1981) who led the Cambridge Expedition to Saint Paul's Rocks, part of the
Cape Verde Islands, who collected the
type specimen
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and realised it was a new species.
References
Further reading
* Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. .
* Fenner, Robert M. ''The Conscientious Marine Aquarist''. Neptune City, New Jersey, USA: T.F.H. Publications, 2001.
* Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey: ''The diversity of fishes''. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts, USA, 1997.
* Hoese, D.F. 1986. A M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany
* Maugé, L.A. 1986. A J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ISNB, Brussels; MRAC, Tervuren, Flanders; and ORSTOM, Paris, France, Vol. 2.
* Moyle, P. and J. Cech.: ''Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology'', 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall. 2000.
* Nelson, J.: ''Fishes of the World'', 3rd ed.. New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons., 1994
Fish of West Africa
Taxa named by Alasdair James Edwards
Fish described in 1986
lubbocki
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