Pterygotrigla multiocellata
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| Pterygotrigla multiocellata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Triglidae |
| Genus: | Pterygotrigla |
| Subgenus: | Parapterygotrigla |
| Species: | P. multiocellata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pterygotrigla multiocellata (Matsubara, 1937) | |
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Pterygotrigla multiocellata, the antrorse spined gurnard, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. This fish is found in the Indo-Pacific region where it has been recorded from Japan, Saipan, and the eastern and western tropical waters off Australia.
Pterygotrigla multiocellata was first formally described in 1937 as Parapterygotrigla multiocellata by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara with the type locality given as the Kumano Sea southeast of the Kii Peninsula in Japan.[2] It is classified within the subgenus Parapterygotrigla of the genus Pterygotrigla and is the type species of that subgenus.[3] The specific name is a compound of multi with ocellata, which means "having eye-like spots", an allusion to the upper half of the body having a scattering of small yellowish dark-brown spots.[4]