Ryukyupercis is a monotypic genus of percomorph fish from the family Pinguipedidae, the sandperches. The only species in the genus, Ryukyupercis gushikeni, the rosy grubfish, is found in the Indo-Pacific from Japan to north western Australia.[2] The generic name is a compound of Ryukyu after the Ryukyu Islands where the type specimen was collected and "percis" a suffix for many of the genera in the Pinguipediae,[2] the specific name honours Mr Soko Gushiken, a who gave the describer of the species, Tetsuo Yoshino, many specimens.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachiniformes |
| Family: | Pinguipedidae |
| Genus: | Ryukyupercis Imamura & Yoshino, 2007 |
| Species: | R. gushikeni
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| Binomial name | |
| Ryukyupercis gushikeni | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parapercis gushikeni Yoshino, 1975 | |
References
edit- ^ Bailly N, ed. (2008). "Ryukyupercis gushikeni (Yoshino, 1975)". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ryukyupercis gushikeni". FishBase. February 2018 version.
- ^ Tetsuo Yoshino (1975). "Parapercis gushikeni A new Mugiloid Fish from the RyuKyu Islands" (PDF). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 22 (5): 343–346. doi:10.5134/175895.