Anampses lennardi
Anampses lennardi, the blue-and-yellow wrasse, is a fish found in the Eastern Indian Ocean.[1]
Anampses lennardi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Labriformes |
Family: | Labridae |
Genus: | Anampses |
Species: | A. lennardi |
Binomial name | |
Anampses lennardi T. D. Scott, 1959 | |
This species reaches a length of 28.0 cm (11.0 in). [2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Fynes Barrett-Lennard (1915โ2008), an Australian landowner who collected many herpetological and ichthyological specimens for the Western Australia Museum.[3]
References
- Randall, J.E., 1972. A revision of the labrid fish genus Anampses. Micronesica 8(1โ2):151โ190.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Anampses lennardi" in FishBase. 2 2015 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (a-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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