Obliquogobius

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Obliquogobius
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Obliquogobius cometes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Obliquogobius
Koumans, 1941
Type species
Gobius cometes
Alcock, 1890
Synonyms
  • OrissagobiusHerre, 1945

Obliquogobius is a genus of gobies native to the Indian Ocean and the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Obliquogobius in FishBase . June 2013 version.
  2. 1 2 Chen, I.-S., Jaafar, Z. & Shao, K.-T. (2012): A new Obliquogobius Koumans, 1941 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Kumejima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Pp. 269-273 In: Naruse, T., Chan, T.-Y., Tan, H.H., Ahyong, S.T. & Reimer, J.D. (2012) Results of the Marine Biodiversity Expedition — KUMEJIMA 2009. Zootaxa, 3367: 1–280. Zootaxa, 3367: 269–273.