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Family NORMANICHTHYIDAE Mote Sculpin (Barehead Scorpionfish)

Normanichthys Clark 1937    in honor of ichthyologist J. R. (John Roxborough) Norman (1898-1944), British Museum (Natural History), who provided a paratype to Carl L. Hubbs, who was studying the taxon independent of Norman and wrote a brief, unpublished description that Clark used in his account; ichthys, fish

Normanichthys crockeri Clark 1937    in honor of San Francisco philanthropist and self-proclaimed explorer Charles Templeton Crocker (1884-1948); holotype was collected during a 1934-1935 expedition aboard his schooner-rigged yacht Zaca