''Parapercis macrophthalma'', the narrow barred grubfish, is a species of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

in the

sandperch The sandperches are a family, Pinguipedidae, of fishes in the percomorph order Trachiniformes. Sandperches are benthic fish which normally occur over sand or rubble substrates in shallow seas. They are found off the coasts of South America, Sou ...

family, Pinguipedidae. It is found in Japan and Taiwan.

Description

''Parapercis macrophthalma'' can reach a total length of .

Taxonomy

''Parapercis macrophthalma'' was first described by

Viktor Pietschmann Viktor Pietschmann (27 October 1881 – 11 November 1956) was an Austrian ichthyologist at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. He was the curator of the fish collection from 1919 to 1946 and made collecting trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, ...

in 1911 as ''Neopercis macrophthalma,'' but in 2013 was assigned to the genus, Parapercis.

References

macrophthalma Taxa named by Viktor Pietschmann Fish described in 1911 {{Pinguipedidae-stub