''Pomatoschistus lozanoi'', Lozano's goby, is a
species of
goby native to the northeastern
Atlantic Ocean from the
North Sea to northwestern
Spain and
Portugal where it can be found at depths of from . This species can reach a length of
TL and is known to live for only two years.
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
honours the
Spanish zoologist Luis Lozano Rey
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...
(1878-1958).
References
Pomatoschistus
Fish of the North Sea
Fauna of Portugal
Fauna of Spain
Fauna of the British Isles
Fish described in 1923
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