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Rarotonga squirrelfish
Neoniphon pencei
Neoniphon pencei, or Pence's squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish found in the Pacific Ocean in Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Mo'orea, French Polynesia. It differs from other species of the genus Neoniphon in number of lateral line scales, scales above and below lateral line, elements of life colour, and in COI and cytochrome b DNA sequences.
From the article Neoniphon pencei on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish is named in honor of David F. Pence, the Dive Safety Officer for the University of Hawaiʻi, and a member of the deep-diving team that not only discovered this species, but was able to collect the type specimens.
== 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 1032193.