Parapercis robinsoni, the smallscale grubfish, is a species of fish in the sandperch family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in the western Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea to South Africa and north to Pakistan.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachiniformes |
| Family: | Pinguipedidae |
| Genus: | Parapercis |
| Species: | P. robinsoni
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| Parapercis robinsoni Fowler, 1929
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Description
editParapercis robinsoni can reach a total length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in).[1]
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honour of John Benjamin Romer Robinson (1869–1949), a South African attorney and businessman.[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Parapercis robinsoni" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- Heemstra, P.C., 1986. Mugiloididae. p. 739-741. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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