Biology:Kelloggella
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Kelloggella | |
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| Kelloggella cardinalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Kelloggella D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| Enypnias oligolepis O. P. Jenkins, 1903
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Kelloggella is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. This genus is distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The genus name honours the United States entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867-1937) of Stanford University, the discoverer of Kelloggella cardinalis.[1]
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Kelloggella avaiki Tornabene, Deis & Erdmann, 2017 (Star-spangled goby)
- Kelloggella cardinalis D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906 (Cardinal goby)
- Kelloggella disalvoi J. E. Randall, 2009 (Disalvo's goby)
- Kelloggella oligolepis (O. P. Jenkins, 1903)
- Kelloggella quindecimfasciata (Fowler, 1946) (Central goby)
- Kelloggella tricuspidata (Herre, 1935)
References
- ↑ "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 14 July 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/gobiiformes6/.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Kelloggella in FishBase. June 2018 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q667550 entry
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