Bumblebee fish

Bumblebee fish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Gobiiformes
Family:Oxudercidae
Genus:Brachygobius
Species: B. xanthozonus
Binomial name
Brachygobius xanthozonus
(Bleeker, 1849)
Synonyms
  • Gobius xanthozona Bleeker, 1849
  • Brachygobius xanthozona (Bleeker, 1849)
  • Hypogymnogobius xanthozona (Bleeker, 1849)
  • Hypogymnogobius xanthozonus (Bleeker, 1849)

The bumblebee fish (Brachygobius xanthozonus) is a species of fresh and brackish water goby native to Thailand and Indonesia. This species can reach a length of 3.8 centimetres (1.5 in) SL[2] and is found in lower parts of rivers, coastal areas, mangroves and highly vegetated areas.

Taxonomy

Brachygobius xanthozona is distinct from many of the other species in the genus Brachygobius and has been placed by some ichthyologists in the genus Hypogymnogobius.[3] It is very rare in the wild, and has not been imported as an aquarium fish, despite the widespread use of the name in the aquarium literature.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Huckstorf, V. (2012). "Brachygobius xanthozonus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T188016A1845609. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Brachygobius xanthozona" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  3. 1 2 Neale (2006). Naomi Delventhal in Monk. Brackish Water Fishes. TFH Publishing. pp. 131–132. ISBN 0-7938-0564-3.


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