Lentipes whittenorum

Lentipes whittenorum is a species of goby endemic to marine, brackish and fresh waters of Indonesia.[2] The specific name jointly honours the biologists Anthony (Tony) and Jane Whitten, who assisted the describer Kottelat in a number projects in Indonesia, particularly in the survey of Bali, an island on which this goby occurs.[3]

Lentipes whittenorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Lentipes
Species:
L. whittenorum
Binomial name
Lentipes whittenorum

References

  1. Jaafar, Z. (2019). "Lentipes whittenorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T11502A91080832. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T11502A91080832.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Lentipes whittenorum" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (6 December 2017). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.


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