Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was curator of fishes at the Australian...
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where it is known from the Norman, Gilbert, and Flinders Rivers. This grunter was described by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1955, the specific name honours...
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Contusus (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Subfamily: Tetraodontinae Genus: Contusus Whitley, 1947 Species See text....
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Polyspina (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Genus: Polyspina Hardy, 1983 Species: P. piosae Binomial name Polyspina piosae (Whitley, 1955)...
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Eubalichthys (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
currently 6 recognized species in this genus: Eubalichthys bucephalus Whitley, 1931 (Black reef leatherjacket) Eubalichthys caeruleoguttatus Hutchins...
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Freshwater cobbler (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Siluriformes Family: Plotosidae Genus: Tandanus Species: T. bostocki Binomial name Tandanus bostocki Whitley, 1944 Synonyms Plotosus unicolor Castelnau, 1873...
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Eopeyeria (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes Family: Ariidae Genus: †Eopeyeria Whitley, 1947 Species: †E. aegyptiaca Binomial name †Eopeyeria aegyptiaca (Peyer...
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Zebra seahorse (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Family: Syngnathidae Genus: Hippocampus Species: H. zebra Binomial name Hippocampus zebra Whitley, 1964 Synonyms Hippocampus montebelloensis Kuiter, 2001...
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Hippocampus bargibanti (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
upon the examination table. The next year, they were officially named by Whitley as "Bargibant's pygmy seahorse". Large, bulbous tubercles cover its body...
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Rhynchobatus australiae (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Genus: Rhynchobatus Species: R. australiae Binomial name Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley, 1939 IUCN range of Rhynchobatus australiae Extant (resident)...
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Herklotsichthys (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
This genus currently contains 12 species. Herklotsichthys blackburni (Whitley, 1948) (Blackburn's herring) Herklotsichthys castelnaui (J. D. Ogilby,...
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Deepwater burrfish (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
2021. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Allomycterus pilatus Whitley, 1931". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-09-01. Froese, Rainer; Pauly...
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Stokell's smelt (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Actinopterygii Order: Osmeriformes Family: Retropinnidae Genus: Stokellia Whitley, 1955 Species: S. anisodon Binomial name Stokellia anisodon (Stokell, 1941)...
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Escualosa (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Clupeiformes Family: Dorosomatidae Genus: Escualosa Whitley, 1940...
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Golden lined whiting (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
classifies the Sillaginidae in the order Spariformes. The species was named by Whitley in 1943 as Sillago analis, designating a specimen collected at Shark Bay...
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Omegophora (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Genus: Omegophora Whitley, 1934...
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Zearaja (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Rajiformes Family: Rajidae Genus: Zearaja Whitley, 1939 Type species Raja nasuta J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841...
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Nuchequula (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Acanthuriformes Family: Leiognathidae Genus: Nuchequula Whitley, 1932 Type species Equula blochii Valenciennes, 1835...
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Ethelwynn Trewavas, English Achille Valenciennes Johann Julius Walbaum Gilbert Percy Whitley Francis Willughby Stan Wood William Yarrell Hans C. Bjerring Erik...
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Negaprion (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
cartilaginous fish genera "Negaprion Whitley 1940 (lemon shark)". Fossilworks.org. Froese, R. and D. Pauly (2018). "Negaprion Whitley, 1940". WoRMS. World Register...
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cases, the name is merged into a single word "Pharlap".) In 1931, Gilbert Percy Whitley, an ichthyologist at the Australian Museum, proposed a new genus...
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Irolita (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Rajiformes Family: Arhynchobatidae Genus: Irolita Whitley, 1931...
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endemic to Western Australia. This species was described in 1943 by Gilbert Percy Whitley with a type locality of Useless Inlet in Shark Bay, Western Australia...
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Repomucenus (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Actinopterygii Order: Callionymiformes Family: Callionymidae Genus: Repomucenus Whitley, 1931 Type species Callionymus calcaratus W. J. Macleay, 1881...
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Fluviphylax (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Cyprinodontiformes Family: Poeciliidae Tribe: Fluviphylacini Roberts, 1970 Genus: Fluviphylax Whitley, 1965 Type species Potamophylax pygmaeus Myers & Carvalho, 1955...
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Monacoa (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Argentiniformes Family: Opisthoproctidae Genus: Monacoa Whitley, 1943 Type species Opisthoproctus grimaldii Zugmayer, 1911...
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Furry coffinfish (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
first formally described in 1929 by the Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley with its type locality given as east of Flinders Island in the Bass...
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Dotalabrus (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Labriformes Family: Labridae Genus: Dotalabrus Whitley, 1930 Type species Cheilinus aurantiacus Castelnau, 1872...
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who collected the specimens in the Tasman Sea which were used by Gilbert Percy Whitley to describe this species. Ayling, Tony; Geoffrey J. Fox (1982)....
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Torquigener (category Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley)
tuberculiferus J. D. Ogilby, 1912 Torquigener vicinus Whitley, 1930 Torquigener whitleyi Paradice, 1927 (Whitley's toadfish) Bond, Todd; Mueller, Robert J.; Birt...
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