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Pseudogobius

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Pseudogobius
Pseudogobius olorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Pseudogobius
Popta, 1922
Type species
None designated but Gobius javanicus Bleeker, 1856 should be designated as such[1]
Synonyms
  • Lizagobius Whitley, 1933
  • Pseudogobius Koumans, 1931
  • Pseudogobius Aurich, 1938

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.[2] Species occur in freshwater and estuarine habitat types, such as mangroves and seagrass beds.[3]

Species

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There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:

References

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  1. ^ Genus Pseudogobius, Catalog of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pseudogobius". FishBase. June 2017 version.
  3. ^ Yokoo, T., et al. (2008). Juvenile morphology of three Pseudogobius species (Gobiidae) occurring in a mangrove estuary, southern Thailand. Laguna 15, 77-82.
  4. ^ Huang, S.-P., Shao, K.-T., Huang, H.-M., Chong, V.-C. & Chen, I-S. (2014): An annotated checklist of gobioid fishes from the mangrove estuary of Matang, Malay Peninsula, with comments on a new Pseudogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) species. Archived 2014-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 21 (Suppl.) [2013]: 106-116.
  5. ^ Bluespot Goby, Pseudogobius olorum (Sauvage 1880). Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria.
  6. ^ Larson, H. 2012. Pseudogobius poicilosoma. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. Downloaded on 12 October 2013.
  7. ^ Chen, I-S., Huang, S.-P. & Huang, H.-M. (2014): A new species of genus Pseudogobius Popta (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from brackish waters of Taiwan and Southern China. Archived 2014-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 21 (Suppl.) [2013]: 130-134.