Pungtungia shiraii is a species of cyprinid fish found in Japan.[1]
| Pungtungia shiraii | |
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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. shiraii
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| Binomial name | |
| Pungtungia shiraii Ōshima, 1957
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Etymology
editNamed in honor of Kunihiko Shirai, Bureau of Game and Hunting of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, who obtained a collection of fishes downstream of the Tama River, including type of this one, and “kindly forwarded to the writer for identification”.[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pungtungia shiraii". 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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