Lestidium rofeni

Lestidium rofeni is a species of fish. It is found in Taiwan and the Philippines. [1]

Lestidium rofeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Paralepididae
Genus: Lestidium
Species:
L. rofeni
Binomial name
Lestidium rofeni
H. C. Ho, Graham & Russell, 2020

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Robert R. Rofen, a former research director of the George Vanderbilt Foundation at Stanford University.[2]

References

  1. Hsuan-Ching Ho, Ken Graham and Barry Russell. 2020. Three New Species of the Barracudina Genus Lestidium (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa. 4767(1); 71–88.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4767.1.3
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order AULOPIFORMES (Lizardfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 31 January 2022.


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