Ben-Tuvia's goby

Ben-Tuvia's goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Gobiiformes
Family:Gobiidae
Genus:Didogobius
Species: D. bentuvii
Binomial name
Didogobius bentuvii
P. J. Miller, 1966

Didogobius bentuvii, Ben-Tuvia's goby, is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea along the coast of Israel where it can be found on muddy sand bottoms at around a depth of 37 metres (121 ft).[2] Both the specific name and the common name honour the Israeli ichthyologist Adam Ben-Tuvia (1919-1999) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who collected type and who has made a significant contribution to the knowledge of the Mediterranean fish fauna.[3]

References

  1. Kovacic, M.; Herler, J. & Williams, J.T. (2014). "Didogobius bentuvii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T194867A49085719. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Didogobius bentuvii" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (d-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 25 August 2018.


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