Acentrogobius

Acentrogobius
Acentrogobius nebulosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Acentrogobius Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Gobius chlorostigma Bleeker, 1849 [1]

Acentrogobius is a genus of gobies native to marine, fresh and brackish waters of the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Acentrogobius matsya is an otolith-based fossil species found in the Burdigalian (Miocene) Quilon Formation of southwestern India. ^[2]

Species

There are currently 24 recognized species in this genus: ^[3]

• Acentrogobius brevirostris (Günther, 1861)
• Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Tropical sand goby)
• Acentrogobius cenderawasih Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Cenderawasih goby)
• Acentrogobius chusanensis (Herre, 1940)
• Acentrogobius dayi Koumans, 1941 (Day's goby)
• Acentrogobius decaryi (Pellegrin, 1932)
• Acentrogobius gracilis (Bleeker, 1875)
• Acentrogobius griseus (Day, 1876) (Grey goby)
• Acentrogobius horai (Fowler, 1925)
• Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker, 1853) (Robust mangrove goby)
• Acentrogobius limarius Allen, Erdmann & Hadiaty, 2015 (Batanta mud goby) ^[4]
• Acentrogobius madraspatensis (Day, 1868)
• † Acentrogobius matsya Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith-based fossil species) ^[2]
• Acentrogobius moloanus (Herre, 1927) (Barcheek amoya)
• Acentrogobius multifasciatus (Herre, 1927)
• Acentrogobius pellidebilis Lee & Kim, 1992
• Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker, 1853) (Striped sandgoby)
• Acentrogobius quinquemaculatus Allen, 2017
• Acentrogobius simplex (Sauvage, 1880) (Bagamoyo goby)
• Acentrogobius therezieni Kiener, 1963
• Acentrogobius vanderloosi Allen, 2015 (Mudslope goby) ^[5]
• Acentrogobius veliensis (Geevarghese & John, 1982)
• Acentrogobius violarisi Allen, 2015 (Alotau goby) ^[5]
• Acentrogobius virgatulus (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
• Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Spotted green goby)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Acentrogobius". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 20 August 2018.
2. Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Acentrogobius". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 24 September 2025.
4. Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V.; Hadiaty, R.K. (2015). "Acentrogobius limarius, a new species of goby (Pisces: Gobiidae) from West Papua Province, Indonesia" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 15: 33–40.
5. Allen, G.R. (2015). "Descriptions of two new gobies (Gobiidae: Acentrogobius) from Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 14: 1–13.