genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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threadfin bream
Nemipteridae are a family of fishes within the order Perciformes. They are known as threadfin breams, whiptail breams and false snappers.
They are found in tropical waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Most species are benthic carni ...
s native to the
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...
and western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* '' Parascolopsis akatamae'' Miyamoto, CALEB D. MCMAHAN, & ATSUSHI KANEKOMIYAMOTO, K., MCMAHAN, C. D., & KANEKO, A. (2020). Parascolopsis akatamae, a new species of dwarf monocle bream (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with redescription of closely related species P. eriomma. Zootaxa, 4881(1), 91–103. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.6
* '' Parascolopsis aspinosa'' (Manikyala Rao & Srinivasa Rao, 1981) (smooth dwarf monocle bream)
* '' Parascolopsis baranesi'' B. C. Russell & Golani, 1993
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Parascolopsis boesemani
''Parascolopsis'' is a genus of threadfin breams native to the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* '' Parascolopsis akatamae'' Miyamoto, CALEB D. MCMAHAN, & ATSUSHI KANEKOMIYAM ...
Parascolopsis eriomma
''Parascolopsis eriomma'', commonly known as rosy dwarf monocle bream, is a fish native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
Appearance
Parascolopsis eriomma has a rosy-coloured back with a diffuse yellow longitudinal band right along the m ...
Temminck
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist and museum director.
Biography
Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. From his father, Jacob Temminck ...
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Parascolopsis qantasi
''Parascolopsis qantasi'', commonly known as slender dwarf monocle bream, is a fish found in the Eastern Indian Ocean: known only from two specimens brought up in the Mentawi Strait, off western Sumatra, Indonesia.
This species reaches a length o ...
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* Benjamin Boulenger (born 1990), French footballer
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