Pungtungia hilgendorfi is a species of cyprinid fish found in Japan.[1]
| Pungtungia hilgendorfi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobioninae |
| Genus: | Pungtungia |
| Species: | P. hilgendorfi
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| Binomial name | |
| Pungtungia hilgendorfi | |
| Synonyms | |
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Zezera hilgendorfi | |
Named in honor of German zoologist and paleontologist Franz Hilgendorf (1839-1904), lecturer at the Imperial Medical Academy Tokyo (1873-1876), whereupon he published articles and collected several specimens of Japanese fauna.[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pungtungia hilgendorfi". FishBase. November 2016 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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