Grallenia

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Grallenia
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Grallenia lipi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Grallenia
Shibukawa & Iwata, 2007
Type species
Grallenia arenicola
Shibukawa & Iwata, 2007 [1]

Grallenia is a genus of gobies native to the western Pacific Ocean. [2]

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:

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References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Grallenia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Grallenia in FishBase . June 2017 version.
  3. Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. (2012): Reef Fishes of the East Indies. Reef Fishes of the East Indies. Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research, Perth, Australia. 1292pp. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN   978-0-9872600-0-0.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. (2017): Description of five new species of marine gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) of the genus Grallenia from the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 27: 20–47.