Biology:Koumansetta

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Koumansetta
Hector's Goby.jpg
Hector's Goby (K. hectori)
Amblygobius rainfordi TW 1.jpg
Old Glory (K. rainfordi)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Koumansetta
Whitley, 1940
Type species
Koumansetta rainfordi
Whitley, 1940

Koumansetta is a small genus of gobies native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The name of this genus honours the Dutch ichthyologist and goby taxonomist Frederik Petrus Koumans (1905-1977) of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands, who had written a description of Koumansetta rainfordi following a visit to the Australian Museum in Sydney in 1938 but did not name it. The outbreak of World War II meant that Whitley's correspondence with Koumans was interrupted, so he named this genus after him, noting “which will enshrine memories of happier days of our meetings in Leiden and Sydney”.[1]

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Koumansetta hectori (J. L. B. Smith, 1957) (Hector's goby)
  • Koumansetta rainfordi Whitley, 1940 (Old glory, Court Jester Goby)
  • Koumansetta hoesei (Marcelo Kovačić, Sergey V. Bogorodsky, Ahmad Osman Mal), 2018

References

  1. "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/. Retrieved 3 September 2018. 
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Koumansetta in FishBase. June 2023 version.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q854703 entry