Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, is a mudskipper endemic to New Guinea, where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers. It is found on mudflats adjacent to turbid rivers. This species can reach a length of 4.4 centimetres (1.7 in) SL.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Oxudercinae |
| Genus: | Zappa Murdy, 1989 |
| Species: | Z. confluentus
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| Binomial name | |
| Zappa confluentus (T. R. Roberts, 1978)
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Etymology edit
Zappa was named after musician Frank Zappa "for his articulate and sagacious defense of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution".[2][3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Zappa confluentus" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ "My true love gave to me … a bat species!". CBS News. December 9, 2008.
- ^ Murdy, E. O. (1989). "A taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the oxudercine gobies (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae)". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement. 11: 1–93. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.11.1989.93.
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