Zephyrichthys barryi

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=Williams, A. |year=2020 |title=''Zephyrichthys barryi'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T141357490A141807288 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T141357490A141807288.en |access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> | taxon = Zephyrichthys barryi | display_parents = 3 | authority = Schwarzhans & Møller, 2007 }}

'''''Zephyrichthys barryi''''' is a species of viviparous brotula found in the Indian Ocean waters around western Australia. This species grows to a length of {{convert|5.9|cm|in}} SL. This species is the only known member of its genus.<ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase |genus= Zephyrichthys|species= barryi| month = June | year = 2012}}</ref> The etymology of the name is that the generic name is a compound of {{Transliteration|grc|zephrys}} which is Greek for the west wind and refers to the species western Australian range and ''ichthys'', "fish". The specific name honours in the ichthyologist J. Barry Hutchins of the Western Australian Museum (WAM) for his contribution to the knowledge of Australian fishes and for allowing the describers of ''Z. barryi'' access to the museum's collections.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | year = 2017 | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | title = Order Ophidiiformes: Families Bythitidae, Dinematichthyidae and Parabrotulidae | access-date = 3 July 2018 | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes2/ | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | archive-date = 1 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180701140220/http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes2/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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Category:Bythitidae Category:Fish described in 2007