''Synchiropus springeri'', also known as Springer's dragonet, is a species of fish in the dragonet family Callionymidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean.

Description

This species grows up to 1.8 cm (0.71 in) in length.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist

Victor G. Springer Victor Gruschka Springer (born in Jacksonville, Florida on 2 June 1928) is Senior Scientist emeritus, Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is a specialist in the anatomy, ...

of the U.S. National Museum, who was the one who collected the type specimens during his Fiji Islands Expedition in 1982 and loaned the specimens and many other specimens to Fricke for examination.

References

springeri Fish of the Pacific Ocean Taxa named by Ronald Fricke Fish described in 1983 {{Callionymidae-stub