Pungtungia hilgendorfi
Species of fish
Pungtungia hilgendorfi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Gobioninae |
Genus: | Pungtungia |
Species: | P. hilgendorfi |
Binomial name | |
Pungtungia hilgendorfi (Jordan & Fowler, 1903) | |
Synonyms | |
Zezera hilgendorfi |
Pungtungia hilgendorfi is a species of cyprinid fish found in Japan.[1]
Named in honor of German zoologist and paleontologist Franz Hilgendorf (1839-1904), lecturer at the Imperial Medical Academy Tokyo (1873-1876), whereupon he published articles and collected several specimens of Japanese fauna.[2]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Pungtungia hilgendorfi" in FishBase. November 2016 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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