Branchiostegus paxtoni, or Paxton's tilefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is found in the Eastern Indian Ocean and is known only from a locality 190 km northwest of Port Hedland, Western Australia.[1] This species reaches a length of 25.5 cm (10.0 in). [2]
Branchiostegus paxtoni | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Malacanthidae |
Genus: | Branchiostegus |
Species: | B. paxtoni
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Binomial name | |
Branchiostegus paxtoni |
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of ichthyologist John R. Paxton (b. 1938), with the Australian Museum in Sydney.[3]
References
edit- ^ Dooley, J.K. and P.J. Kailola, 1988. Four new tilefishes from the northeastern Indian Ocean, with a review of the genus Branchiostegus. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 35(3):247-260
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Branchiostegus paxtoni". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Series EUPERCARIA (Incertae sedis): Families CALLANTHIIDAE, CENTROGENYIDAE, DINOLESTIDAE, DINOPERCIDAE, EMMELICHTHYIDAE, MALACANTHIDAE, MONODACTYLIDAE, MORONIDAE, PARASCORPIDIDAE, SCIAENIDAE and SILLAGINIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 March 2022.