Pandaka lidwilli
| Pandaka lidwilli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Pandaka |
| Species: | P. lidwilli
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| Binomial name | |
| Pandaka lidwilli (McCulloch, 1917)
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| Synonyms | |
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Gobius lidwilli McCulloch, 1917 | |
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] In the Teima River estuary on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan, Pandaka lidwilli spawns from January to October.[2] It lives in muddy substrate near mangroves and is threatened by human activities such as landfill and deforestation, so it’s listed “Vulnerable” in Japan’s Red Data Books.[2] 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.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pandaka lidwilli". FishBase. June 2018 version.
- ^ a b Kunishima, Taiga; Saimaru, Hirotoshi; Tachihara, Katsunori (2020). "Reproductive traits of the dwarf gobies Pandaka trimaculata and Pandaka lidwilli in the western Pacific Ocean: histological evidence from one of the smallest fishes in the world". Journal of Fish Biology. 98 (3): 733–742. doi:10.1111/jfb.14617. ISSN 0022-1112.
- ^ 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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