Sillago shaoi

Species of fish

Sillago shaoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Spariformes
Family: Sillaginidae
Genus: Sillago
Species:
S. shaoi
Binomial name
Sillago shaoi
T. X. Gao & J. G. Xiao, 2016

Sillago shaoi is a species of marine fish in the smelt-whiting family Sillaginidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean, in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China.[1]

Entomology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Kwang-Tsao Shao (b. 1951), of the National Taiwan Ocean University.[2]

References

  1. ^ Xiao, J.-G., Song, N., Han, Z.-Q. & Gao, T.-X. (2016): Description and DNA Barcoding of a New Sillago species, Sillago shaoi (Perciformes: Sillaginidae), in the Taiwan Strait. Zoological Studies, 55 (47): 1-10.
  2. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Series EUPERCARIA (Incertae sedis): Families CALLANTHIIDAE, CENTROGENYIDAE, DINOLESTIDAE, DINOPERCIDAE, EMMELICHTHYIDAE, MALACANTHIDAE, MONODACTYLIDAE, MORONIDAE, PARASCORPIDIDAE, SCIAENIDAE and SILLAGINIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 March 2022.


Taxon identifiers
Sillago shaoi
  • Wikidata: Q111271157
  • GBIF: 9439001
  • NCBI: 2079476