''Synchiropus moyeri'', commonly known as Moyer's dragonet, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of fish in the family

Callionymidae Dragonets are small percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek ''kallis'', "beautiful" and ', "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most of ...

, the dragonets. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean.

Description

This species reaches a length of .

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of marine biologist

Jack T. Moyer Dr. Jack Thomson Moyer (March 7, 1929 – January 10, 2004) was a marine biologist and known child sexual abuser from Kansas, who lived for most of his life on Miyake-jima in Japan. Moyer was a scientist with the United States Air Force, who beca ...

(1929-2004), who was director of the Tatsuo Tanaka Memorial Biological Station at Miyake-jima, Japan, for his “noteworthy contributions to the knowledge of the fishes of Miyake-jima, and in deep appreciation of the encouragement and logistic support he has provided to both of the authors”.

References

moyeri Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish of East Asia Taxa named by Martha Janet Zaiser Brownell Taxa named by Ronald Fricke Fish described in 1985 {{Callionymidae-stub