Stonogobiops
Stonogobiops | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Genus: | Stonogobiops Polunin & Lubbock, 1977 |
Type species | |
Stonogobiops dracula Polunin & Lubbock, 1977 |
Stonogobiops is a genus of gobies native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. This is one of the "shrimp goby" genera, the members of these genera being commensal with various species of shrimps.[1]
Species
There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Stonogobiops dracula Polunin & Lubbock, 1977 (Dracula shrimp-goby)
- Stonogobiops larsonae (G. R. Allen, 1999) (Larson's shrimpgoby)
- Stonogobiops medon Hoese & J. E. Randall, 1982
- Stonogobiops nematodes Hoese & J. E. Randall, 1982 (Filament-finned prawn-goby)
- Stonogobiops pentafasciata Iwata & Hirata, 1994
- Stonogobiops xanthorhinica Hoese & J. E. Randall, 1982 (Yellownose prawn-goby)
- Stonogobiops yasha Yoshino & Shimada, 2001 (Orange-striped shrimpgoby)
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Stonogobiops in FishBase. June 2013 version.
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