Diplecogaster
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| Diplecogaster | |
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| Diplecogaster bimaculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiesociformes |
| Family: | Gobiesocidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiesocinae |
| Genus: | Diplecogaster Fraser-Brunner, 1938 |
| Type species | |
| Cyclopterus bimaculatus Bonnaterre, 1788[1]
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Diplecogaster is a genus of fish in the family Gobiesocidae found in Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.[2]
Species
[edit]There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
- Diplecogaster bimaculata (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Two-spotted clingfish)
- Diplecogaster ctenocrypta Briggs, 1955 (Eastern Atlantic deep-water clingfish) [3]
- Diplecogaster euxinica Murgoci, 1964 [3]
- Diplecogaster megalops Briggs, 1955 (Big-eye clingfish)
- Diplecogaster pectoralis Briggs, 1955 [3]
- Diplecogaster tonstricula R. Fricke, Wirtz & Brito, 2015 (Eastern Atlantic cleaner clingfish) [3]
- Diplecogaster umutturali Bilecenoğlu, Yokeş & Kovačić, 2017 [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Diplecogaster". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Diplecogaster". FishBase. June 2017 version.
- ^ a b c d Fricke, R., Wirtz, P. & Brito, A. (2015): Diplecogaster tonstricula, a new species of cleaning clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Canary Islands and Senegal, eastern Atlantic Ocean, with a review of the Diplecogaster-ctenocrypta species-group. Journal of Natural History, 50 (11-12): 731-748.
- ^ Bilecenoğlu, M., Yokeş, M.B. & Kovačić, M. (2017): A new species of Diplecogaster (Actinopterygii: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Zoology in the Middle East, 63 (3): 210-218.
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