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Pungtungia shiraii
Pungtungia shiraii is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons. This species is found in Japan.
From the article Pungtungia shiraii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
Named 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".
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 613437.