Parapercis ramsayi, the spotted grubfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean around southern Western Australia and South Australia.
Description
Parapercis ramsayi reaches a total length of 10.0 cm (3.9 in).1
Etymology
The fish is named almost certainly in honour of zoologist Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842-1916), the Curator of the Australian Museum.2
- May, J.L. and J.G.H. Maxwell, 1986. Trawl fish from temperate waters of Australia. CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research, Tasmania. 492 p.
- Spotted Grubfish, Parapercis ramsayi (Steindachner 1883) @ fishesofaustralia.net.au
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Parapercis ramsayi". FishBase. February 2018 version. /wiki/Rainer_Froese ↩
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. Retrieved 9 March 2022. http://www.etyfish.org/uranoscopiformes/ ↩