Upeneus willwhite Uiblein & Motomura, 2021[4] (White’s Goatfish) Etymology. It honours the ichthyologist Dr. William T. White, of the Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, in Hobart, Australia, for collecting and photographing mullid specimens from South Indonesia and making them available for taxonomic research (including the types specimens of Upeneus willwhite.[13]
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^ abUiblein, Franz & Gouws, Gavin (2014). "A new goatfish species of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) based on molecular and morphological screening and subsequent taxonomic analysis". Marine Biology Research. 10 (7): 655–681. doi:10.1080/17451000.2013.850515. S2CID83710235.
^Yamashita, M.; Golani, D. & Motomura, H. (2011). "A new species of Upeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from southern Japan". Zootaxa. 3107: 47–58. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3107.1.3.
^Uiblein F. & Gledhill D.C. (2015). "A new goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from Australia and Vanuatu, with inter- and intraspecific comparisons". Marine Biology Research. 11 (5): 475–491. doi:10.1080/17451000.2014.958088. S2CID84788326.
^Uiblein, Franz & Causse, Romain (2013). "A new deep-water goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from Vanuatu, South Pacific". Zootaxa. 3666 (3): 337–344. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3666.3.4. PMID26217854. S2CID18331929.