Ancistrogobius is a genus of gobies native to the western Pacific Ocean. The first fossil record of this genus is Ancistrogobius indicus (only otoliths known) from the Burdigalian of southwestern India.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Ancistrogobius Shibukawa, Yoshino & G. R. Allen, 2010 |
| Type species | |
| Ancistrogobius dipus Shibukawa, Yoshino & G. R. Allen, 2010
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Species
editThere are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Ancistrogobius dipus Shibukawa, Yoshino & G. R. Allen, 2010 (Double-fin cheek-hook goby)
- Ancistrogobius squamiceps Shibukawa, Yoshino & G. R. Allen, 2010 (Scaly cheek-hook goby)
- Ancistrogobius yanoi Shibukawa, Yoshino & G. R. Allen, 2010 (Yano's cheek-hook goby)
- Ancistrogobius yoshigoui Shibukawa, Yoshino & G. R. Allen, 2010 (Threadless cheek-hook goby)
- Ancistrogobius indicus Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022[1] (fossil)
References
edit- ^ a b Nora, Carolin; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9. S2CID 249184395.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ancistrogobius". FishBase. April 2013 version.
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