Taenioides buchanani, the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of goby in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Taenioides |
| Species: | T. buchanani
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| Taenioides buchanani (Day, 1873)
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Description
editTaenioides buchanani can reach a total length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in).[2]
Etymology
editThe species epithet is named in honour of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.[3]
References
edit- ^ Larson, H. (2019). "Taenioides buchanani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T123438566A123494852. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T123438566A123494852.en. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Taenioides buchanani". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
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