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Loraxichthys lexa Salcedo, 2013
Accepted name
Check Catalog of Fishes: Genus: Loraxichthys; Species: lexa; Original reference
  Current accepted name :   
Yes
  Status details:   
senior synonym, original combination
  Status ref. :   
  Comment :   
  Etymology of Generic name : 
  
Derived from Lorax, name of a fictitious character, created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, that plights for the environment and from the Greek ichthys, meaning fish. Loraxichthys refers to the fish that speaks for other fishes.
Etymology of specific name : 
  
Named for Alexandra Keane, a sustainability activist, currently a Political Sciences student at the College of Charleston. A noun in apposition
  Status in Catalogue of Life:   
Accepted name
 
ITIS TSN : None | Catalogue of Life (accepted name) | ZooBank Record | WoRMS | References using this synonym
 
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