Oxyurichthys

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Oxyurichthys
Oxyurichthys cornutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Oxyurichthys
Bleeker, 1857
Type species
Gobius belosso
Bleeker, 1854
Synonyms
  • Gobiichthys Klunzinger, 1871
  • Paeneapocryptes Herre, 1927
  • Pselaphias D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906

Oxyurichthys is a genus of fish in the goby family, Gobiidae, known commonly as arrowfin gobies.[1] They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans; one species is also known from the western Atlantic Ocean.[2] Most species live in shallow waters under 10 meters deep over fine substrates such as silt.[2]

Species

There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:[3]

  • Oxyurichthys amabalis Seale, 1914
  • Oxyurichthys auchenolepis Bleeker, 1876 (scaly-nape tentacle goby)[4]
  • Oxyurichthys cornutus McCulloch & Waite, 1918 (horned tentacle goby)[5]
  • Oxyurichthys formosanus Nichols, 1958
  • Oxyurichthys guibei J. L. B. Smith, 1959
  • Oxyurichthys heisei Pezold, 1998 (ribbon goby)
  • Oxyurichthys lemayi (J. L. B. Smith, 1947) (lace goby)
  • Oxyurichthys lonchotus (O. P. Jenkins, 1903) (speartail mudgoby)
  • Oxyurichthys microlepis (Bleeker, 1849) (maned goby)
  • Oxyurichthys mindanensis (Herre, 1927)
  • Oxyurichthys notonema (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (threadfin mudgoby)
  • Oxyurichthys ophthalmonema (Bleeker, 1856) (eyebrow goby)
  • Oxyurichthys papuensis (Valenciennes, 1837) (frogface goby)
  • Oxyurichthys paulae Pezold, 1998 (jester goby)
  • Oxyurichthys petersenii (Steindachner, 1893)
  • Oxyurichthys saru Tomiyama, 1936
  • Oxyurichthys stigmalophius (Mead & J. E. Böhlke, 1958) (spotfin goby)
  • Oxyurichthys takagi Pezold, 1998
  • Oxyurichthys tentacularis (Valenciennes, 1837)
  • Oxyurichthys uronema (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (longtail tentacle goby)[6]
  • Oxyurichthys viridis Herre, 1927
  • Oxyurichthys visayanus Herre, 1927

References

  1. Oxyurichthys. Atlas of Living Australia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pezold, F. (1998). Three new species of Oxyurichthys (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Copeia 3, 687-95.
  3. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Oxyurichthys in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  4. Scaly-nape Tentacle Goby, Oxyurichthys auchenolepis Bleeker 1876. Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria.
  5. Horned Tentacle Goby, Oxyurichthys cornutus McCulloch & Waite 1918. Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria.
  6. Longtail Tentacle Goby, Oxyurichthys uronema (Weber 1909). Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria.
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