Synchiropus grinnelli

Species of fish

Synchiropus grinnelli, the Philippines dragonet, is a species of fish in the dragonet family Callionymidae . It is found in the western-central Pacific from the Philippines to Indonesia.^[1]

This species reaches a length of 6.5 cm (2.6 in).^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Joseph Grinnell (1877-1939), who was Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California in Berkeley, California.^[3]

References

1. Fricke, R., 1982. Nominal genera and species of dragonets (Teleostei: Callionymidae, Draconettidae). Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova 84:53-92.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Synchiropus grinnelli" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families DACTYLOPTERIDAE, PEGASIDAE, CALLIONYMIDAE, DRACONETTIDAE and MULLIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 31 January 2023.