Yellow prawn-goby

Yellow prawn-goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Gobiinae
Genus: Cryptocentrus
Species: C. cinctus
Binomial name
Cryptocentrus cinctus
(Herre, 1936)
Synonyms
  • Cryptocentrus flavus (non Yanagisawa, 1978)
  • Smilogobius cinctus Herre, 1936

Cryptocentrus cinctus (common names include Yellow Watchman Goby,Yellow Shrimp or Prawn Goby, Midas Goby, Watchman Gold, and Yellow Spotted Blenny) is a goby from the Western Pacific. This species is also known as Iga tubumata by the inhabitants of the Nggela Islands.[1]

References

  1. ^ "What’s in a name? An analysis of the West Nggela (Solomon Islands) fish taxonomy.", Simon Foale, SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin #9 – February 1998