Ryukyupercis

{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Ryukyupercis gushikeni

| parent_authority = Imamura & Yoshino, 2007

| authority = (Yoshino, 1975){{cite WoRMS |title=Ryukyupercis gushikeni (Yoshino, 1975)|id=282638 |year=2008 |db=FishBase |accessdate=19 June 2018}}

| synonyms = Parapercis gushikeni Yoshino, 1975

}}

Ryukyupercis is a monotypic genus of percomorph fish from the family Pinguipedidae, the sandperches. The only species in the genus, Ryukyupercis gushikeni, the rosy grubfish, is found in the Indo-Pacific from Japan to north western Australia.{{FishBase|Ryukyupercis|gushikeni|month=February|year=2018}} The generic name is a compound of Ryukyu after the Ryukyu Islands where the type specimen was collected and "percis" a suffix for many of the genera in the Pinguipediae, the specific name honours Mr Soko Gushiken, a who gave the describer of the species, Tetsuo Yoshino, many specimens.{{cite journal | author = Tetsuo Yoshino | year = 1975 | title = Parapercis gushikeni A new Mugiloid Fish from the RyuKyu Islands | journal = Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory | volume = 22 | issue = 5 | pages = 343–346 | doi = 10.5134/175895 | url = https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/175895/1/fia0225_343.pdf}}