Yellow weaver (fish)

{{Short description|Sandperch; a marine fish in the genus Parapercis from New Zealand}}

{{For|the birds sometimes known as yellow weavers|Eastern golden weaver|Finn's weaver}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

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| name = Yellow weaver

| image = Parapercis_gilliesii_(Yellow_weaver).gif

| image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling

| taxon = Parapercis gilliesii

| authority = (Hutton, 1879)

| synonyms = Percis gilliesii Hutton, 1879

}}

The yellow weaver, Parapercis gilliesii, is a sandperch, a species of marine ray-finned fish in the genus Parapercis found only around New Zealand.

References

  • {{ITIS |id=170970 |taxon=Parapercis gilliesii |access-date=18 April 2006}}
  • {{FishBase|genus= Parapercis |species= gilliesii |year= 2005 |month= 10}}
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) {{ISBN|978-0-00-216987-5}}

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Category:Parapercis

Category:Endemic marine fish of New Zealand

Category:Taxa named by Frederick Hutton (scientist)

Category:Fish described in 1879

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