Pandaka lidwilli

Pandaka lidwilli, or the Lidwill's dwarf goby, is a species of goby found in brackish and salt water in the mouths of rivers and maritime zones in Japan, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.[1] The specific name honours the Australian anesthesiologist and cardiologist Mark C. Lidwill (1878–1969), who was co-inventor of the pacemaker, as well as being a saltwater angler who, while fishing for game fish, observed this tiny goby and brought it to the attention of Allan Riverstone McCulloch who subsequently described it.[2]

Pandaka lidwilli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Pandaka
Species:
P. lidwilli
Binomial name
Pandaka lidwilli
(McCulloch, 1917)
Synonyms

Gobius lidwilli McCulloch, 1917

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Pandaka lidwilli" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order Gobiiformes: Family Oxudercidae (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 August 2018.


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