The stripedfin ronquil (''Rathbunella hypoplecta''), also known as the bluebanded ronquil, is a species of marine
ray-finned fish belonging to the
family Bathymasteridae
Ronquils (sometimes spelt ronchils) is a small family marine ray-finned fish, the Bathymasteridae. These fishes are found only in Arctic and North Pacific waters. This family contains just seven species in three genera. The larger species are im ...
, the ronquils. This fish is found in the eastern
Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
The stripedfin ronquil was first formally
described as ''Bathymaster hypoplectus'' in 1890 by the American
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
Charles Henry Gilbert with the
type locality given as off
Southern California.
When
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford Univer ...
and
Barton Warren Evermann
Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853 – September 27, 1932) was an American ichthyologist.
Early life and education
Evermann was born in Monroe County, Iowa in 1853. His family moved to Indiana while he was still a child and it was ...
proposed the
monotypic genus ''Rathbunella'' they designated this species as its
type species.
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
''hypoplectus'' is a compound