Diplecogaster

Diplecogaster
Diplecogaster bimaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Gobiesocidae
Subfamily:	Gobiesocinae
Genus:	Diplecogaster Fraser-Brunner, 1938
Type species
Cyclopterus bimaculatus Bonnaterre, 1788 [1]

Diplecogaster is a genus of fish in the family Gobiesocidae found in Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. ^[2]

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus: ^[3]

• Diplecogaster bimaculata (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Two-spotted clingfish)
• Diplecogaster ctenocrypta Briggs, 1955 (Eastern Atlantic deep-water clingfish) ^[4]
• Diplecogaster euxinica Murgoci, 1964 ^[4]
• Diplecogaster megalops Briggs, 1955 (Big-eye clingfish)
• Diplecogaster pectoralis Briggs, 1955 ^[4]
• Diplecogaster roseiocula Fricke & Wirtz, 2023
• Diplecogaster tonstricula Fricke, Wirtz & Brito, 2015 (Eastern Atlantic cleaner clingfish) ^[4]
• Diplecogaster umutturali Bilecenoğlu, Yokeş & Kovačić, 2017 ^[5]

References

1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Diplecogaster". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 7 June 2019.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Diplecogaster". FishBase . June 2017 version.
3. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Diplecogaster". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 12 January 2026.
4. Fricke, R.; Wirtz, P.; Brito, A. (2015). "Diplecogaster tonstricula, a new species of cleaning clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Canary Islands and Senegal, eastern Atlantic Ocean, with a review of the Diplecogaster ctenocrypta species-group". Journal of Natural History. 50 (11–12): 731–748. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1079659.
5. Bilecenoğlu, M.; Yokeş, M.B.; Kovačić, M. (2017). "A new species of Diplecogaster (Actinopterygii: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea". Zoology in the Middle East. 63 (3): 210–218. doi:10.1080/09397140.2017.1349119.