Argyrops bleekeri
Argyrops bleekeri is also known as Taiwan tai. It is a species of fish in the family Sparidae. It is found from Japan to Australia in the Western Pacific. This species reaches a length of 50.0 cm (19.7 in). [1]
| Argyrops bleekeri | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Spariformes |
| Family: | Sparidae |
| Genus: | Argyrops |
| Species: | A. bleekeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Argyrops bleekeri Oshima, 1927 | |
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878), who reported this species as Sparus which is now Argyrops spinifer in 1865.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Argyrops bleekeri" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SPARIFORMES: Families LETHRINIDAE, NEMIPTERIDAE and SPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- Iwatsuki, Y. and P.C. Heemstra, 2018. Taxonomic review of the genus Argyrops (Perciformes; Sparidae) with three new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 4438(3):401-442.
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