Exyrias
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Exyrias akihito |
Exyrias is a genus of marine gobies with four described species found throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These are relatively large gobies, typically found in turbid estuarine waters (although the recently described Exyrias akihito is a species of clearer water associated with coral reefs).
[edit] References
- 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
- FishBase entry for Exyrias