''Sueviota lachneri'', also known as Lachner's dwarfgoby, is a species of
fish in the
family Gobiidae. found in the
Maldives.
Description
This species reaches a
standard length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
of .
Entymology
''Sueviota lachneri'' is named for American ichthyologist
Ernest A. Lachner
Ernest Albert Lachner (3 April 1915, New Castle, Pennsylvania – 7 January 1996, Winchester, Virginia) was an American ichthyologist with an international reputation for his research on Indo-Pacific goby, gobies and cardinalfishes.
Biography
La ...
of the United States
National Museum of Natural History.
References
*Randall, J.E. and M. Goren, 1993. A review of the gobioid fishes of the Maldives. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (58):1-37, 5 pls.
lachneri
Taxa named by Richard Winterbottom
Taxa named by Douglass F. Hoese
Fish described in 1988
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