Biology:Pseudogobiopsis

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Pseudogobiopsis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Pseudogobiopsis
Koumans, 1935
Type species
Gobiopsis oligactis
Bleeker, 1875

Pseudogobiopsis is a genus of fish in the goby family, Gobiidae. They are native to fresh and brackish waters of southern and southeastern Asia.[1] The genus is mainly distinguished by the number and arrangement of fin rays and spines, headpores, and sensory papillae, the large mouths of the males, a fleshy or bony flange on the pectoral girdle, and the shape of the genital papilla.[2]

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pseudogobiopsis in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Larson, H. K. (2009). Review of the gobiid fish genera Eugnathogobius and Pesudogobiopsis (Gobioidei: Gobiidae: Gobionellinae), with descriptions of three new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57, 127-81.
  3. Hui, T. H. and K. K. P. Lim. (2011). Rediscovery of the bigmouth stream goby, Pseudogobiopsis oligactis (Actinopterygii: Gobiiformes: Gobionellidae) in Singapore. Nature in Singapore 4 363-67.
  4. Gerald R. Allen and Helen K. Larson: Pseudogobiopsis rubrimaculosus, a new species of freshwater goby (Gobioidei: Gobiidae: Gobionellinae) from northwestern Papua New Guinea, pp. 33-40, aqua 26(2)

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