Oxyurichthys takagi
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Oxyurichthys takagi is a species of goby is found in the Western Pacific: known only from Palau. This species reaches a length of {{convert|6.4|cm|in|abbr=on}}.Pezold, F., 1998. Three new species of Oxyurichthys (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Copeia 1998(3):687-695.{{FishBase |genus= Oxyurichthys|species= takagi| month = February | year = 2015}}
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Kazunori Takagi, of the Tokyo University of Fisheries, whose studies of gobioid oculoscapular canals showed their significance to gobioid systematics.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/gobiiformes2/ | title = Order GOBIIFORMES: Families TRICHONOTIDAE, RHYACICHTHYIDAE, ODONTOBUTIDAE, MILYERINGIDAE, ELEOTRIDAE, BUTIDAE and THALASSELEOTRIDIDAE | access-date= 23 March 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
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Category:Fish of the Pacific Ocean
Category:Taxa named by Frank Lorenzo Pezold III
Category:Fish described in 1998
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