Echiodon drummondii
| Echiodon drummondii | |
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| Drawing from A History of the Fishes of the British Islands (1877) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Ophidiiformes |
| Family: | Carapidae |
| Genus: | Echiodon |
| Species: | E. drummondii |
| Binomial name | |
| Echiodon drummondii (Thompson, 1837) | |
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Echiodon drummondii, sometimes called Drummond's echiodon or Drummond's pearlfish, and in Ireland simply called the pearlfish, is a species of fish in the family Carapidae (pearlfish).
It is named for James Lawson Drummond, who collected the holotype at Carnlough, Ireland in 1836.
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