Sueviota

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Sueviota
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Sueviota
R. Winterbottom & Hoese, 1988
Type species
Sueviota lachneri
Winterbottom & Hoese, 1988

Sueviota is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. [1]

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

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References

  1. Winterbottom, R.; D.F. Hoese (1998). "A new genus and four new species of fishes from the Indo-West Pacific (Pisces; Perciformes; Gobiidae), with comments on relationships". R. Ont. Mus. Life Sci. Occas. Pap. 37: 1–17.
  2. Nunes Peinemann, Viktor; Pombo-Ayora, Lucía; Tornabene, Luke; Berumen, Michael L. (2024-09-12). "The Grumpy dwarfgoby, a new species of Sueviota (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from the Red Sea". ZooKeys. 1212: 17–28. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1212.121135 . PMC   11413506 . PMID   39309170 . Retrieved 2024-09-30.
  3. Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V.; Dita Cahyani, N.K. (2016). "Sueviota bryozophila, a new species of coral-reef goby from Indonesia (Teleostei: Gobiidae)" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 20: 76–82.
  4. Greenfield, D.W.; Randall, J.E. (2017). "Sueviota pyrios, a new species of coral-reef dwarfgoby from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Gobiidae)" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 25: 8–13.
  5. Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V. (2017). "Sueviota tubicola, a new species of coral-reef goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 25: 1–7.