Taitung County is the third largest county in Taiwan Province, Republic of China, located primarily on the island's southeastern coast and also including Green Island, Orchid Island and Lesser Orchid Island. The seat is located in Taitung City.
Orchid Island, also known by other names, is a 45 km2 (17 sq mi) volcanic island off the southeastern coast of Taiwan, which Orchid Island is part of. It is separated from the Batanes of the Philippines by the Bashi Channel of the Luzon Strait. It is governed as Lanyu Township of Taitung County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China which also includes the nearby Lesser Orchid Island.
Rhinogobius is a genus of primarily freshwater gobies native to tropical and temperate parts of eastern Asia. Most are small, streamlined in shape, and often sexually dimorphic. Few are of commercial importance, but R. duospilus is fairly widely traded as an aquarium fish.
Mugilogobius is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae. They are found in fresh, brackish and marine water of the Indo-Pacific region. Several of the freshwater species have highly restricted distributions.
Rhinogobius giurinus is a species of goby native to eastern Asia where it inhabits marine, brackish and fresh waters of rivers and estuaries. This species can reach a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL. It is of importance to local peoples as a food fish.
Rhinogobius carpenteri is a freshwater species of goby endemic to the Philippines. It grows up to 5.9 cm (2.3 in) SL, and is dull yellow-brown, whitish under the jaw, eyes blue, grayish fins with two silvery white anterior spines, silvery white anal fin rays, with the caudal fins shading to dusky at the tip. Its common name in the Philippines is kuchu. The species was named for the co-collector of the cotypes, Mr. W. D. Carpenter. In 1927, Albert William Christian Theodore Herre erected a new genus in the family Gobiidae, Tukugobius and moved R. carpenteri into it as the type species, but the genus was later rendered invalid.
Rhinogobius flumineus, commonly known as the lizard goby or kawa-yoshinobori, is a species of goby endemic to Japan where it is found in the mid- to upper reaches of fast-flowing rivers. This species can reach a length of 7 centimetres (2.8 in) TL.
Papuligobius is a genus of fish in the goby subfamily, Gobionellinae, native to Southeast Asia. It was erected in 2003 to house the species P. uniporus, newly described from Laos. A second species, P. ocellatus, was transferred from genus Rhinogobius at the same time.
Pseudogobius is a genus of fish in the goby family, Gobiidae. It is widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Species occur in freshwater and estuarine habitat types, such as mangroves and seagrass beds.
Rhinogobius aporus is a species in the goby subfamily Gobionellinae endemic to China. It was first described as Pseudorhinogobius aporus, but that genus has been brought into synonymy with Rhinogobius.
Rhinogobius wuyanlingensis is a freshwater goby native to Wuyanling National Nature Reserve in Zhejiang Province, China. It is probably endemic to the upper reaches of the Feiyun River Basin.
Rhinogobius zhoui, known as Zhou's scarlet goby in the aquarium trade, is a species of freshwater goby from the subfamily Gobionellinae which was discovered in a stream on Lianhua Mountain in Haifeng County, Guangdong Province, China. This goby also native in the other part of Guangdong Province and Guangxi Province, for some similar described species，which are called Resemble Zhou's Rhinogobius (类周氏吻虾虎) and New Red Rhinogobius (新红吻虾虎) in China, are found in streams of those places.
Papuligobius uniporus is a species of small goby in the subfamily Gobionellinae. It is also the type species of the genus Papuligobius.
Stiphodon imperiorientis is a species of goby found on the southern Japan islands and in the mainland of South China. This species can reach a length of 5.0 centimetres (2.0 in) SL.
Stiphodon percnopterygionus is a species of goby found in the Pacific Ocean on the Asian side from the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan in Asia out to Guam, the Mariana Islands and Babelthuap, Palau in the south Pacific. This species can reach a length of 3.7 centimetres (1.5 in) SL.
Rhinogobius niger is a small benthic species in the goby subfamily Gobionellinae endemic to Zhejiang Province, China. It was discovered in 2002 and scientifically described and assigned a binomial taxonomic name in 2016.
Rhinogobius mizunoi is a species of fish in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in a freshwater stream in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Rhinogobius brunneus, the Amur goby, is a species of fish in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in the Asian river basins of the seas of the Pacific coasts of Japan, Hokkaido, Ryukyu, Taiwan, the rivers of Korea, continental China, the Philippines and Viet Nam.
Rhinogobius candidianus is a species of freshwater goby. It is endemic to Taiwan.
