Parapercis moki

Parapercis moki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Pinguipedidae
Genus:	Parapercis
Species:	P. moki
Binomial name
	Parapercis moki; H. C. Ho & J. W. Johnson, 2013

Parapercis moki, also known as Mok's sandperch, is a species of ray-finned fish in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the north-western Pacific Ocean off Taiwan.¹

Description

Parapercis moki can reach a standard length of 10.4 centimetres (4.1 in).²

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Hin-Kiu Mok (b. 1947) of the National Sun Ye-San University in Taiwan.³

References

Ho, H.-C. and J.W. Johnson, 2013. Redescription of Parapercis macrophthalma (Pietschmann, 1911) and description of a new species of Parapercis (Pisces: Pinguipedidae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 3620(2):273-282.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis moki". FishBase. June 2013 version.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.

[1] Ho, H.-C. and J.W. Johnson, 2013. Redescription of Parapercis macrophthalma (Pietschmann, 1911) and description of a new species of Parapercis (Pisces: Pinguipedidae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 3620(2):273-282.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis moki". FishBase. June 2013 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.

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