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Northern blue devil

The northern blue devil is a species of fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae. It has been recorded from the inshore waters of Queensland, eastern Australia, from Bowen to Moreton Bay. The specific name honours Percy Power, who caught the type specimen.

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Northern blue devil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Plesiopidae
Genus: Paraplesiops
Species:
P. poweri
Binomial name
Paraplesiops poweri
Ogilby, 1908
Synonyms2

Paraplesiops jolliffei Ogilby, 1916

The northern blue devil (Paraplesiops poweri) is a species of fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae. It has been recorded from the inshore waters of Queensland, eastern Australia, from Bowen to Moreton Bay.3 The specific name honours Percy Power, who caught the type specimen.4

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References

  1. Williams, J.T. (2022). "Paraplesiops poweri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022 e.T214365931A214365934. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T214365931A214365934.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Paraplesiops poweri". FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. Hoese, Douglass F. & Kuiter, Rudie H. (1984). "A revision of the Australian plesiopid fish genus Paraplesiops, with notes on other Australian genera" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 36 (1): 7–18. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.36.1984.322.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (29 March 2018). "Subseries OVALENTARIA: Incertae sedis". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 September 2018.