Anampses lennardi

Anampses lennardi
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

Anampses lennardi, the blue-and-yellow wrasse, is a fish found in the Eastern Indian Ocean.[1]

This species reaches a length of 28.0 cm (11.0 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Fynes Barrett-Lennard (1915–2008), 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(1–2):151–190.
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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[1] Randall, J.E., 1972. A revision of the labrid fish genus Anampses. Micronesica 8(1–2):151–190.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Anampses lennardi" in FishBase. 2 2015 version.

[ETYFish-3] 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.