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Lutjanus mizenkoi
Species of fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lutjanus mizenkoi, the Samoan snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae.[1]
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Etymology
The fish is named in honor of David Mizenko, of the School of Oceanography, at the University of Rhode Island, because of his efforts in procuring the type specimens and bringing them to the authors' attention that it may represent an undescribed species. Mizenko wrote his master's thesis on snappers of Samoa and incidentally purchased the holotype specimen at a Samoan fish market.[2]
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