''Pempheris rochai'', commonly known as Rocha's sweeper, is a species of sweeper fish of the family

Pempheridae Sweepers are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciform fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera. One species (''Pempheris xan ...

. It's found in the northern Indian Ocean, on shallow reefs along the coast of Oman.

Etymology

It was named after

Luiz A. Rocha Luiz Alves Rocha is the Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University. Education Rocha has obtained ...

to honor his contributions to ichthyology.

References

rochai Taxa named by John Ernest Randall Taxa named by Benjamin C. Victor Fish of the Middle East {{Percoidea-stub