Oxuderces

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Oxuderces
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Oxuderces dentatus
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Oxudercinae
Genus: Oxuderces
Eydoux & Souleyet, 1848
Type species
Oxuderces dentatus
Eydoux & Souleyet, 1848

Oxuderces is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae native to fresh and brackish waters of coasts of the Indian and Pacific Ocean. [1]

Species

These are the recognized species in this genus:

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Oxuderces in FishBase . June 2016 version.
  2. 1 2 Jaafar, Z. & Parenti, L.R. (2016): Systematics of the mudskipper genus Oxuderces Eydoux & Souleyet 1848 (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) with resurrection from synonymy of O. nexipinnis (Cantor 1849). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 180 (1): 195-215.