Pandaka lidwilli

Pandaka lidwilli, or the Lidwill's dwarf goby, is a species of goby found in brackish and salt water in the mouths of rivers and maritime zones in Japan, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.^[1] In the Teima River estuary on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan, Pandaka lidwilli spawns from January to October.^[2] It lives in muddy substrate near mangroves and is threatened by human activities such as landfill and deforestation, so it’s listed “Vulnerable” in Japan’s Red Data Books.^[2] The specific name honours the Australian anesthesiologist and cardiologist Mark C. Lidwill (1878–1969), who was co-inventor of the pacemaker, as well as being a saltwater angler who, while fishing for game fish, observed this tiny goby and brought it to the attention of Allan Riverstone McCulloch who subsequently described it.^[3]

Pandaka lidwilli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Genus:	Pandaka
Species:	P. lidwilli
Binomial name
Pandaka lidwilli (McCulloch, 1917)
Synonyms
Gobius lidwilli McCulloch, 1917