About Labidesthes vanhyningi Bean & Reid, 1930
Labidesthes vanhyningi, commonly known as the golden silverside, is a species of Neotropical silverside native to North America. It is a pelagic and neritic freshwater fish that occurs in river systems that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, ranging from the Neches River to southern Florida. This species was first described in 1930 by Barton A. Bean and Earl D. Reid, with the type locality at Prairie Creek, 6 miles east of Gainesville, Florida. It was named to honor Oather C. Van Hyning, the collector of the type specimen and a herpetologist, who was the son of Thompson H. Van Hyning, the first director of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
