Pseudogobius

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
Pseudogobius olorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
  • Lizagobius Whitley, 1933
  • Pseudogobius Koumans, 1931
  • Pseudogobius Aurich, 1938

Species

There 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 javanicus Bleeker, 1856
  • 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
  1. Genus Pseudogobius, Catalog of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Pseudogobius in FishBase. June 2017 version.
  3. Yokoo, T., et al. (2008). Juvenile morphology of three Pseudogobius species (Gobiidae) occurring in a mangrove estuary, southern Thailand. Laguna 15, 77-82.
  4. 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.
  5. Bluespot Goby, Pseudogobius olorum (Sauvage 1880). Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria.
  6. Larson, H. 2012. Pseudogobius poicilosoma. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. Downloaded on 12 October 2013.
  7. 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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