Exyrias
Exyrias is a genus of gobies mostly native to marine waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean with one freshwater species (E. volcanus) known from the Philippines.
| Exyrias | |
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| Exyrias puntang | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Exyrias D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius puntangoides Bleeker, 1853 | |
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Exyrias akihito G. R. Allen & J. E. Randall, 2005[2]
- Exyrias belissimus (J. L. B. Smith, 1959) (Mud Reef-goby)
- Exyrias ferrarisi Murdy, 1985
- Exyrias puntang (Bleeker, 1851) (Puntang Goby)
- Exyrias volcanus (Herre, 1927)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Exyrias in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- Allen, Gerald R. & Randall, John E. (2005): Exyrias akihito, a new species of coral-reef goby (Gobiidae) from the western pacific. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53(2): 231-235. PDF fulltext
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