Bathygobius burtoni

Bathygobius burtoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Gobiiformes
Family:Gobiidae
Genus:Bathygobius
Species: B. burtoni
Binomial name
Bathygobius burtoni
Synonyms
  • Gobius burtoni O'Shaughnessy, 1875

Bathygobius burtoni is a species of goby native to the Atlantic shores of western Africa where it is a denizen of tide pools. This species can reach a total length of 8 cm (3.1 in).[2] The specific name honours Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), the English explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat, who collected the type specimen.[3] This species has a very limited distribution and is known from only five locations in an area in which there has been a hige increase in the human population and the IUCN has assessed this species a Endangered.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Carpenter, K.E.; Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; de Bruyne, G. & de Morais, L. (2015). "Bathygobius burtoni". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2015: e. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Bathygobius burtoni" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 August 2018.


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