Kei goby

Kei goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Gobiiformes
Family:Oxudercidae
Genus:Oligolepis
Species: O. keiensis
Binomial name
Oligolepis keiensis
Synonyms[2]

Gobius keiensis Smith, 1938
Ctenogobius keiensis (Smith, 1938) Gobionellus keiensis (Smith, 1938) Oxyurichthys keiensis (Smith, 1938)

Oligolepis keiensis also known as the Kei goby is a species of goby native to marine and brackish waters along the coasts of Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar and the Seychelles. This species can reach a length of 7 centimetres (2.8 in) TL.[3]

Sources

  1. Larson, H.K.; Murdy, E. & Whitfield, A. (2010). "Oxyurichthys keiensis (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T15239A115125895. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Oligolepis keiensis" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. Pezold, F.L. & Larson, H.K. (2015). "A revision of the fish genus Oxyurichthys (Gobioidei: Gobiidae) with descriptions of four new species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3988 (1): 1–95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3988.1.1.


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