Odontamblyopus rebecca
| Odontamblyopus rebecca | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Odontamblyopus |
| Species: | O. rebecca
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| Binomial name | |
| Odontamblyopus rebecca Murdy & Shibukawa, 2003
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Odontamblyopus rebecca is a species of eel goby native to marine and brackish waters of Vietnam. This species can reach a length of 14.1 centimetres (5.6 in) SL.[1] This species is mostly known from several specimens collected from a fish market in Haiphong, Vietnam.[2]
Etymology
The specific name honours Edward O. Murdy's wife Rebecca Rootes.[3]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Odontamblyopus rebecca". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Murdy, E. O. & Shibukawa, K. (2003): Odontamblyopus rebecca, a new species of amblyopine goby from Vietnam with a key to known species of the genus (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae). Zootaxa, 138: 1-6.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (6 December 2017). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.