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Parapercis Australis
''Parapercis'' is a genus of sandperches belonging to the family (biology), family Pinguipedidae. Species There are currently 79 recognized species in this genus: * ''Parapercis albipinna'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2008 * ''Parapercis albiventer'' Hans, Hsuan-Ching Ho, H.-C. Ho, Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra & Hisashi Imamura, Imamura, 2014 (Whitebelly sandperch) * ''Parapercis alboguttata'' (Albert Günther, Günther, 1872) (Whitespot sandsmelt) * ''Parapercis allporti'' Albert Günther, Günther, 1876 (Barred grubfish) * ''Parapercis atlantica'' (Léon Vaillant, Vaillant, 1887) * ''Parapercis aurantiaca'' Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein, Döderlein (:de:Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein, de), 1884 * ''Parapercis australis'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2003 * ''Parapercis banoni'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall & Takeshi Yamakawa, Yamakawa, 2006 * ''Parapercis basimaculata'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, Hiroshi Senou, Senou & Testsuo Yoshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapercis Cylindrica
''Parapercis cylindrica'', the cylindrical sandperch, is a species of sandperch belonging to the family (biology), family Pinguipedidae. Etymology Genus ''Parapercis'' = Greek ''para'', beside, near, compared with + Greek ''perkis'', a fish, perch. Genus ''Parapercis'' fishes are closely related to perches, which belong to genus ''Perca''. Description ''Parapercis cylindrica'' can reach a length of . It shows a series of quadrangular dark brown blotches along the body. The largest blotches are joined by dark brown stripes. A narrow dark brown bar is located below middle of eye. Caudal fin is usually yellowish. Distribution This species can be found Western Pacific, from Australia to Fiji, southern Japan, northern Sulawesi and Marshall Islands. Habitat ''Perapercis cylindrica'' is a species associated to shallow reef. It usually can be found in lagoon and seaward reefs on sand and seagrass, at depths between . References Wetwebmedia External links * Parapercis, cylind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ernest Randall
John Ernest "Jack" Randall (May 22, 1924 – April 26, 2020) was an American ichthyologist and a leading authority on coral reef fishes. Randall described over 800 species and authored 11 books and over 900 scientific papers and popular articles. He spent most of his career working in Hawaii. He died in April 2020 at the age of 95. Career John Ernest Randall was born in Los Angeles, California in May 1924, to John and Mildred (McKibben) Randall. In high school he acquired a love of marine fish after a visit to the tide pools of Palos Verdes and, after serving stateside in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during the post-D-Day years of WWII,John Randall bio, The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences. (http://www.auas-nogi.org/bio_randall_john.html ) received his BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950. In 1955 he earned his Ph.D in ichthyology from the University of Hawaii. After spending two years as a research associate at the Bishop Museum in Honol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapercis Australis
''Parapercis'' is a genus of sandperches belonging to the family (biology), family Pinguipedidae. Species There are currently 79 recognized species in this genus: * ''Parapercis albipinna'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2008 * ''Parapercis albiventer'' Hans, Hsuan-Ching Ho, H.-C. Ho, Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra & Hisashi Imamura, Imamura, 2014 (Whitebelly sandperch) * ''Parapercis alboguttata'' (Albert Günther, Günther, 1872) (Whitespot sandsmelt) * ''Parapercis allporti'' Albert Günther, Günther, 1876 (Barred grubfish) * ''Parapercis atlantica'' (Léon Vaillant, Vaillant, 1887) * ''Parapercis aurantiaca'' Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein, Döderlein (:de:Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein, de), 1884 * ''Parapercis australis'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2003 * ''Parapercis banoni'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall & Takeshi Yamakawa, Yamakawa, 2006 * ''Parapercis basimaculata'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, Hiroshi Senou, Senou & Testsuo Yoshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein
Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein (3 March 1855, Bad Bergzabern – 23 April 1936, Munich) was a German zoologist. He specialized in echinoderms, particularly sea stars, sea urchins, and crinoids. He was one of the first European zoologists to have the opportunity to do research work in Japan from 1879 to 1881. Today, he is considered one of the most important pioneers of marine biological research in Japan. He was the director and curator of the Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg from 1882 to 1919. He headed the Zoologische Staatssammlung München from 1923 to 1927 and was Professor of Zoology in the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Biography Ludwig Döderlein was born in Bad Bergzabern, then Kingdom of Bavaria, on March 3, 1855. He went to school in Bayreuth from 1864 to 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he studied natural sciences in the University of Erlangen, where he also worked as an assistant to the Zoologist Emil Selenka in the summer of 1875. From 1875 to 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapercis Aurantiaca
''Parapercis aurantiaca'' is a ray-finned fish species in the sandperch The sandperches are a family, Pinguipedidae, of ray-finned fishes in the percomorph order Labriformes. Sandperches are benthic fish which normally occur over sand or rubble substrates in shallow seas. They are found off the coasts of South Ame ... family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the Northwest Pacific, including China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. This species reaches a length of . References *Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text). Taxa named by Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein aurantiaca Fish described in 1884 Fish of the North Pacific {{Pinguipedidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Vaillant
Léon Louis Vaillant (; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoology, zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology. In 1854 he graduated from the Arras College, College d'Arras, followed by studies in medicine and zoology in Paris. In 1861, he received his medical doctorate, then continued his zoological studies with Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), earning his degree in natural sciences in 1865. In 1875, he became a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Museum of Natural History in Paris. He held a special interest involving the systematics and anatomy of turtles and crocodiles, but also made significant contributions in his investigations of reptilian physiology and behavior. Of his 200-plus scientific writings, 90 of them are based on herpetology, herpetological subjects. He participated in French naval expeditions on the ''Travailleur'' in 1880, 1881 and 1882 and on the ''Talisman'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapercis Atlantica
''Parapercis atlantica'' is a ray-finned fish species in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands .... This species reaches a length of . References *Quéro, J.-C. and J.E. Randall, 1990. Mugiloididae. p. 892. In J. C. Quéro, J. C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. atlantica Taxa named by Léon Vaillant Fish described in 1887 Fish of West Africa {{Pinguipedidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapercis Allporti
''Parapercis allporti'', the barred grubfish, is a ray-finned fish species in the sandperch The sandperches are a family, Pinguipedidae, of ray-finned fishes in the percomorph order Labriformes. Sandperches are benthic fish which normally occur over sand or rubble substrates in shallow seas. They are found off the coasts of South Ame ... family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the Eastern Indian Ocean, in southern Australia, from South Australia to New South Wales and Tasmania. This species reaches a length of . References *May, J.L. and J.G.H. Maxwell, 1986. Trawl fish from temperate waters of Australia. CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research, Tasmania. 492 p. * allporti Marine fish of Southern Australia Fauna of New South Wales Marine fish of Tasmania Taxa named by Albert Günther Fish described in 1876 {{Pinguipedidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther , also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia ( Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''" (On the pupal state of ''Distoma''). He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parapercis Alboguttata
''Parapercis alboguttata'', the bluenose grubfish, known also as the bluenose sandperch and whitespot sandsmelt, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Pinguipedidae, native to the western Indo-Pacific Ocean. It was first described by the German-born, British ichthyologist and zoologist, Albert Günther, in 1872. Description The bluenose grubfish is a slender fish with a nearly cylindrical body at the front becoming flattened near the tail. It can grow to a length of about . The eyes are large and near the top of the head, and the mouth is broad with three pairs of canine teeth at the front of the lower jaw. The snout is pale blue with yellow diagonal streaks. The fins are mostly white; the dorsal fin has five spines, the third and fourth being the longest, and twenty-two soft rays; the pectoral fin has seventeen to nineteen soft rays and the anal fin has a single spine and nineteen soft rays. The body is reddish above, with the margins of the scales being golden br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisashi Imamura
Hisashi is a masculine Japanese given name. Its meaning differs depending on the kanji used to write it. Kanji Single kanji used to write the name Hisashi include: *: "long time" *: "eternal" *: "still" *: "standard" *: "complete" *: "long" *: "life" (also with the ''kyūjitai'' variant ) *: "long day" There are more than a hundred different ways to write the name using two or three characters. People with the name *, Japanese zoologist *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese actor *, Japanese guitarist and songwriter *, Japanese writer and playwright *, Japanese historian *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese football manager *, Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist *, Japanese geologist *, Japanese football player *, Japanese painter *, Japanese alpine skier *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese video game developer *, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
