Perryena leucometopon

Perryena leucometopon
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Perryenidae
Honma, Imamura & Kawai, 2013
Genus: Perryena
Whitley, 1940
Species: P. leucometopon
Binomial name
Perryena leucometopon
(Waite, 1922)

Perryena leucometopon, the Whitenose pigfish, is a scorpaeniform fish endemic to the Pacific Ocean around Australia where it is found on coral reefs. This species grows to a length of 16 centimetres (6.3 in) TL.[1] This species is the only known member of its genus and in 2013 was split from the family Congiopodidae into its own family.[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Perryena leucometopon" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  2. Honma, Y., Imamura, H. & Kawai, T. (2013): Anatomical description of the genus Perryena, and proposal to erect a new family for it based on its phylogenetic relationships with related taxa (Scorpaeniformes). Ichthyological Research, DOI 10-1007/s10228-012-0321-z
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