Pseudamia hayashii
Pseudamia hayashii, commonly known as Hayashi's cardinalfish, is a species of cardinalfish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans frpm the Gulf of Aden to Samoa, north to southern Japan and south to Western Australia.[1] The specific name honours the Japanese ichthyologist Masayoshi Hayashi, a curator at the Yokosuka City Museum, who has studied the cardinalfishes of Japan and who lent a specimen of P. hayashi on learning of the authors' research on the genus Pseudamia.[2]
| Pseudamia hayashii | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Kurtiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Genus: | Pseudamia |
| Species: | P. hayashii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudamia hayashii | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Pseudamia hayashii" in FishBase. June 2015 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2018). "Order KURTIFORMES (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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