Lesueurigobius
| Lesueurigobius | |
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| Fries's Goby (L. friesii) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiinae |
| Genus: | Lesueurigobius Whitley, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius suerii A. Risso, 1810 | |
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Lesueurigobius is a genus of gobies native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The generic name honours the French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846), for whom the type species, Lesueurigobius suerii, was named, Georg Duncker's name Lesueuria being preoccupied by a genus of comb jellies.[1]
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Lesueurigobius friesii (Malm, 1874) (Fries's goby)
- Lesueurigobius heterofasciatus Maul, 1971
- Lesueurigobius koumansi (Norman, 1935)
- Lesueurigobius sanzi (F. de Buen, 1918) (Sanzo's goby)
- Lesueurigobius suerii (A. Risso, 1810) (Lesueur's goby)
References
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Lesueurigobius in FishBase. June 2013 version.
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