| Mendeleev's clingfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Subfamily: | Diademichthyinae |
| Genus: | Lepadicyathus |
| Species: | L. minor
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| Binomial name | |
| Lepadicyathus minor Briggs, 1955
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| Synonyms | |
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Lepadicyathus mendeleevi Prokofiev, 2005 | |
Mendeleev's clingfish (Lepadicyathus minor) is a species of fish in the family Gobiesocidae endemic to Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. This species is the only known member of its genus.1 This species was described in 2005 by Artem Mikhailovich Prokofiev, the type being collected near the village of Bongu in Madang Province2 from the research vessel Dmitrii Mendeleev, referred to in its specific name. The vessel was in turn named in hours of the Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907), the creator of the most widely recognised periodic table.3
References
References
- Fricke, R.; Chen, J.-N.; Chen, W.-J. (2016). "New case of lateral asymmetry in fishes: A new subfamily, genus and species of deep water clingfishes from Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 340 (1): 47–62. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2016.11.002. PMID 27979388.
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Lepadicyathus mendeleevi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 June 2019.