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yellow Irish lord

Hemilepidotus jordani

Classification

Family
Cottidae

The yellow Irish lord (Hemilepidotus jordani) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Agonidae It is found in the northern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The yellow Irish lord was first formally described in 1881 by the American ichthyologist Tarleton Hoffman Bean with its type locality given as Ilyulyuk Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Bean did not identify the identity of the person honored in the specific name but it is most likely to be David Starr Jordan.

Distribution

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