''Synchiropus moyeri'', commonly known as Moyer's dragonet, is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of fish in the family
Callionymidae
Dragonets are small, percomorph, marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek ''kallis'', "beautiful" and ', "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most ...
, the dragonets. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean.
Description
This species reaches a length of .
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of marine biologist
Jack T. Moyer
Dr. Jack Thomson Moyer (March 7, 1929 – January 10, 2004) was a marine biologist and known child sexual abuser from Kansas, who lived for most of his life on Miyake-jima in Japan. Moyer was a scientist with the United States Air Force, who bec ...
(1929-2004), who was director of the Tatsuo Tanaka Memorial Biological Station at Miyake-jima, Japan, for his “noteworthy contributions to the knowledge of the fishes of Miyake-jima, and in deep appreciation of the encouragement and logistic support he has provided to both of the authors”.
References
moyeri
Fish of the Pacific Ocean
Fish of East Asia
Taxa named by Martha Janet Zaiser Brownell
Taxa named by Ronald Fricke
Fish described in 1985
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