Pungtungia hilgendorfi

Pungtungia hilgendorfi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Gobioninae
Genus: Pungtungia
Species:
P. hilgendorfi
Binomial name
Pungtungia hilgendorfi
(Jordan & Fowler, 1903)
Synonyms

Zezera hilgendorfi

Pungtungia hilgendorfi is a species of cyprinid fish found in Japan.[1]

Named in honor of German zoologist and paleontologist Franz Hilgendorf (1839-1904), lecturer at the Imperial Medical Academy Tokyo (1873-1876), whereupon he published articles and collected several specimens of Japanese fauna.[2]


References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pungtungia hilgendorfi". FishBase. November 2016 version.
  2. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 March 2021.


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