Kopua minima

Kopua minima
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Division:	Teleostei
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Gobiesocidae
Genus:	Kopua
Species:	K. minima
Binomial name
Kopua minima (Döderlein, 1887)
Synonyms
Lepadogaster minimus Döderlein in Steindachner & Döderlein, 1887 Aspasma minima (Döderlein, 1887) Kopua japonica G. I. Moore, Hutchins & Okamoto, 2012

Kopua minima, the Japanese deepwater clingfish, is a clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae, found in the Northwest Pacific, the East China Sea and Japan. This species reaches a length of 3.0 cm (1.2 in). This species was described in 1887 by the German zoologist and paleontologist Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein from a type collected at a depth of 100-150 fathoms in Sagami Bay, Japan.

References

• Moore, G.I.; B. Hutchins; and M. Okamoto, 2012. "A new species of the deepwater clingfish genus Kopua (Gobiesociformes: Gobiesocidae) from the East China Sea - an example of antitropicality?". Zootaxa. 3380: 34–38.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Kyoji Fujiwara; Hiroyuki Motomura (25 June 2019). "Kopua minima (Döderlein 1887), a senior synonym of K. japonica Moore, Hutchins and Okamoto 2012, and description of a new species of Aspasma (Gobiesocidae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Research. 67 (1): 50–67. doi:10.1007/S10228-019-00701-0. ISSN 1341-8998. Wikidata Q104624945.