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]
| Pseudogobius | |
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| Pseudogobius olorum | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
Species
editThere are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:
- Pseudogobius avicennia Herre, 1940
- Pseudogobius fulvicaudus S. P. Huang, K. T. Shao & I. S. Chen, 2014[4]
- Pseudogobius masago Tomiyama, 1936
- Pseudogobius melanostictus F. Day, 1876
- Pseudogobius olorum Sauvage, 1880 (Bluespot goby)[5]
- Pseudogobius poicilosoma Bleeker, 1849 (Northern fatnose goby)[6]
- Pseudogobius taijiangensis I. S. Chen S. P. Huang & K. Y. Huang, 2014[7]
References
edit- ^ Genus Pseudogobius, Catalog of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pseudogobius". FishBase. June 2017 version.
- ^ Yokoo, T., et al. (2008). Juvenile morphology of three Pseudogobius species (Gobiidae) occurring in a mangrove estuary, southern Thailand. Laguna 15, 77-82.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bluespot Goby, Pseudogobius olorum (Sauvage 1880). Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria.
- ^ Larson, H. 2012. Pseudogobius poicilosoma. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. Downloaded on 12 October 2013.
- ^ 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.
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