Bathygobius

Bathygobius
Cheekscaled frill-goby (B. cotticeps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Gobiinae
Genus:	Bathygobius Bleeker, 1878
Type species
Gobius nebulopunctatus Valenciennes, 1837
Synonyms
ChlamydesO. P. Jenkins, 1903 KoumansiasisVisweswara Rao, 1967 MapoSmitt, 1900 PyosicusJ. L. B. Smith, 1960

Bathygobius is a circumtropical genus of fish in the family Gobiidae. ^[1]

Species

There are currently 27 recognized species in this genus: ^[2]

• Bathygobius aeolosoma (J. D. Ogilby, 1889)
• Bathygobius andrei (Sauvage, 1880)
• Bathygobius antilliensis Tornabene, C. C. Baldwin & Pezold, 2010 (Antilles frillfin)
• Bathygobius brasiliensis Carvalho-Filho & de Araújo, 2017
• Bathygobius burtoni (O'Shaughnessy, 1875)
• Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune, 1880)
• Bathygobius coalitus (E. T. Bennett, 1832) (Whitespotted frillgoby)
• Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker, 1854) (Cocos frill-goby)
• Bathygobius cotticeps (Steindachner, 1879) (Cheekscaled frill-goby)
• Bathygobius curacao (Metzelaar, 1919) (Notchtongue goby)
• Bathygobius cyclopterus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Spotted frillgoby)
• Bathygobius fishelsoni Goren, 1978
• Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell, 1830) (Dusky frillgoby)
• Bathygobius geminatus Tornabene, C. C. Baldwin & Pezold, 2010 (Twin-spotted frillfin)
• Bathygobius hongkongensis C. Lam, 1986
• Bathygobius kreftii (Steindachner, 1866) (Krefft's frillgoby)
• Bathygobius lacertus (Poey, 1860)
• Bathygobius laddi (Fowler, 1931) (Brownboy goby)
• Bathygobius lineatus (Jenyns, 1841) (Southern frillfin)
• Bathygobius meggitti (Hora & Mukerji, 1936) (Meggitt's goby)
• Bathygobius mero G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Nisha K. Ichida, 2024 ^[3]
• Bathygobius mystacium Ginsburg, 1947 (Island frillfin)
• Bathygobius niger (J. L. B. Smith, 1960) (Black minigoby)
• Bathygobius panayensis (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1907)
• Bathygobius petrophilus (Bleeker, 1853)
• Bathygobius ramosus Ginsburg, 1947 (Panamic frillfin)
• Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes, 1837) (Frillfin goby)

References

1. Miller, PJ; Stefanni S. (2001). "The eastern Pacific species of Bathygobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 49 (Supplement 1): 141–156. PMID   15260163. Abstract
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bathygobius". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 25 September 2025.
3. Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V.; Ichida, N.K. (2024). "A new sponge-dwelling goby (Gobiidae: Bathygobius) from Indonesia, Philippines, and Australia". Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 41: 47–53. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14003729.