Awaous

Awaous
Awaous ocellaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Gobionellinae
Genus:	Awaous Valenciennes, 1837
Type species
Gobius ocellaris Broussonet, 1782
Synonyms
AwaousSteindachner, 1861 ChiramenuVisweswara Rao, 1971 ChonophorusPoey, 1860 EuctenogobiusT. N. Gill, 1859 PlatygobiusBleeker, 1874 SuibogaS. Y. Pinto, 1960 TrichopharynxJ. D. Ogilby, 1898

Awaous is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. They are native to fresh, marine and brackish waters from Africa to the Americas.

Species

There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus: ^[1]

• Awaous acritosus Watson, 1994 (Roman nose goby)
• Awaous aeneofuscus (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Freshwater goby)
• Awaous banana (Valenciennes, 1837) (River goby)
• Awaous bustamantei (Greeff, 1882)
• Awaous commersoni (J. G. Schneider, 1801)
• Awaous flavus (Valenciennes, 1837)
• Awaous fluviatilis (Rao, 1971)
• Awaous grammepomus (Bleeker, 1849) (Scribbled goby)
• Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes, 1837)
• Awaous lateristriga (A. H. A. Duméril, 1861) (West African freshwater goby)
• Awaous litturatus (Steindachner, 1861)
• Awaous macrorhynchus (Bleeker, 1867)
• Awaous melanocephalus (Bleeker, 1849) (Largesnout goby)
• Awaous motla Seth, Roy, Sura, Puvala, Mishra & Mohapatra, 2023 ^[2]
• Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet, 1782)
• Awaous pallidus (Valenciennes, 1837)
• Awaous personatus (Bleeker, 1849)
• Awaous stamineus (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850)
• Awaous tajasica (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1822) (Sand fish)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Awaous". FishBase . November 2014 version.
2. Jaya Kishor Seth, Sanmitra Roy, Sameer Sura, Dilraj Puvala, Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra and Anil Mohapatra. 2023. Description of A New Species of the Genus Awaous Valenciennes, 1837 (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from the middle stretch of the Mahanadi River, Odisha, India with Comments on the Awaous Species from India. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15598