Parahypsos piersoni

Parahypsos piersoni is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the eastern Pacific ocean, from Costa Rica to Peru.[2] The specific name honours C.J. Pierson, who was a member of the expedition to Panama on which the type was collected.[3]

Parahypsos piersoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Blenniidae
Subfamily: Salarinae
Genus: Parahypsos
Bath, 1982
Species:
P. piersoni
Binomial name
Parahypsos piersoni
Synonyms
  • Hypsoblennius piersoni Gilbert & Starks, 1904

References

  1. Bessudo, S.; Dominici-Arosemena, A.; Espinosa, H. & Hastings, P. (2010). "Parahypsos piersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T183907A8197835. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183907A8197835.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Parahypsos piersoni" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 March 2019.


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