Bathygobius

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Bathygobius
Cheekscaled frill-goby, Bathygobius cotticeps (Steindachner, 1879) by J. L. Nievera.jpg
Cheekscaled frill-goby (B. cotticeps)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
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 29 recognized species in this genus: [2]

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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. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bathygobius". FishBase . April 2013 version.
  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.; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14003729