Biology:Apocryptodon

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Apocryptodon
Apocryptes bleekeri Ford 64.jpg
Apocryptes bleekeri
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Oxudercinae
Genus: Apocryptodon
Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Apocryptes madurensis
Bleeker, 1849

Apocryptodon is a genus of gobies native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Apocryptodon madurensis (Bleeker, 1849) (Madura goby)
  • Apocryptodon punctatus Tomiyama, 1934
  • Apocryptodon wirzi Koumans, 1937 (Wirz's goby) [2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Apocryptodon in FishBase. June 2016 version.
  2. Jaafar, Z. & Parenti, L.R. (2016): Systematics of the mudskipper genus Oxuderces Eydoux & Souleyet 1848 (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) with resurrection from synonymy of O. nexipinnis (Cantor 1849). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 180 (1): 195-215.

Wikidata ☰ Q773666 entry