Praealticus oortii is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Indian Ocean from the Andaman Sea to Timor in the western Pacific.[2] The identity of the person honoured by the specific name of this blenny was not specified but it is thought to be most likely to be the draftsman and illustrator Peter van Oort (1804-1834), who, as part of the Physics Commission for the Dutch East Indies, explored Java which is the type locality of this species.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Blenniiformes |
| Family: | Blenniidae |
| Genus: | Praealticus |
| Species: | P. oortii
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| Binomial name | |
| Praealticus oortii (Bleeker, 1851)
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| Synonyms | |
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Salarias oortii Bleeker, 1851 | |
References edit
- ^ Williams, J.T. (2014). "Praealticus oortii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T48342186A48356904. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T48342186A48356904.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Praealticus oortii" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2018). "Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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