Callionymus petersi

Taxonavigation: Callionymoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Ordo: Syngnathiformes Subordo: Callionymoidei

Familia: Callionymidae
Genus: Callionymus
Species: Callionymus petersi

Name

Callionymus petersi Fricke, 2016

Holotype: NTUM 11243. Paratypes: MNHN 2016-0004 (1, 0); NTUM 10987 (1,0), 11486 (0, 1), 11373 (0, 1).

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, New Ireland Province, 11.5 km west of Kavieng, 2°33.33’S, 150°41.45’E – 2°33.32’S, 150°43.18’E, 180–181 m depth.

Etymology: The species is named in honor of the late Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters (b. Apr. 22, 1815, Koldenbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; d. Apr. 20, 1883, Berlin), professor at the University of Berlin and director of the ZMB and of Zoological Garden in Berlin. Peters described the fishes collected by S.M.S. Gazelle in New Ireland in July, 1875, and was the first to observe this species (although he misidentified it as Callionymus calauropomus [non Richardson, 1844]).

Vernacular names

English: Peters’s Dragonet

References

• Fricke, R. 2016. Callionymus petersi, a new species of dragonet from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Callionymidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 21: 38–57. PDF. Reference page.