Gnatholepis
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Gnatholepis
Bleeker, 1874
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Gobius anjerensis Bleeker, 1851
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Gnatholepis is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. It is the only marine genus in the subfamily Gobionellinae, which otherwise includes mostly estuary-dwelling and freshwater fish. Gnatholepis are tropical fish associated with sandy habitat around corals.[1]
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus.[1]
Species include:[2]
- Gnatholepis anjerensis (Bleeker, 1851) (eye-bar goby)
- Gnatholepis argus Larson & Buckle, 2005
- Gnatholepis caudimaculata Larson & Buckle, 2012
- Gnatholepis cauerensis (Bleeker, 1853) (eyebar goby)
- Gnatholepis gymnocara J. E. Randall & D. W. Greenfield, 2001
- Gnatholepis knighti D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1903
- Gnatholepis ophthalmotaenia (Bleeker, 1854)
- Gnatholepis pascuensis J. E. Randall & D. W. Greenfield, 2001 (Rapanui goby)
- Gnatholepis thompsoni D. S. Jordan, 1904 (goldspot goby)
- Gnatholepis yoshinoi T. Suzuki & J. E. Randall, 2009 (Yoshino's goby)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Larson, H. K. and D. J. Buckle. (2012). A revision of the goby genus Gnatholepis Bleeker (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobionellinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3529: 1–69.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Gnatholepis in FishBase. June 2013 version.
Further Reading
- Randall, John E. and Greenfield, David W. 2001. A preliminary review of the Indo-Pacific Gobiid fishes of the genus Gnatholepis. Ichthyological Bulletin J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 69. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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