Awaous is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. They are native to fresh, marine and brackish waters from Africa to the Americas.
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| Awaous ocellaris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobionellinae |
| Genus: | Awaous Valenciennes, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius ocellaris Broussonet, 1782
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Species
editThere are currently 19 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Awaous acritosus Watson, 1994 (Roman nose goby)
- Awaous aeneofuscus (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Freshwater goby)
- Awaous banana (Valenciennes, 1837) (River goby)
- Awaous bustamantei (Greeff, 1882)
- Awaous commersoni (J. G. Schneider, 1801)
- Awaous flavus (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Awaous fluviatilis (Rao, 1971)
- Awaous grammepomus (Bleeker, 1849) (Scribbled goby)
- Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Awaous lateristriga (A. H. A. Duméril, 1861) (West African freshwater goby)
- Awaous litturatus (Steindachner, 1861)
- Awaous macrorhynchus (Bleeker, 1867)
- Awaous melanocephalus (Bleeker, 1849) (Largesnout goby)
- Awaous motla Seth, Roy, Sura, Puvala, Mishra & Mohapatra, 2023[2]
- Awaous nigripinnis (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet, 1782)
- Awaous pallidus (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Awaous personatus (Bleeker, 1849)
- Awaous stamineus (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850)
- Awaous tajasica (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1822) (Sand fish)
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Awaous". FishBase. November 2014 version.
- ^ Jaya Kishor Seth, Sanmitra Roy, Sameer Sura, Dilraj Puvala, Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra and Anil Mohapatra. 2023. Description of A New Species of the Genus Awaous Valenciennes, 1837 (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from the middle stretch of the Mahanadi River, Odisha, India with Comments on the Awaous Species from India. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15598
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