Acentrogobius
| Acentrogobius | |
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| Acentrogobius nebulosus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Acentrogobius Bleeker, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius chlorostigma Bleeker, 1849[1]
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Acentrogobius is a genus of gobies native to marine, fresh and brackish waters of the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Acentrogobius matsya is an otolith-based fossil species found in the Burdigalian (Miocene) Quilon Formation of southwestern India.[2]
Species
There are currently 24 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Acentrogobius brevirostris (Günther, 1861)
- Acentrogobius caninus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Tropical sand goby)
- Acentrogobius cenderawasih Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Cenderawasih goby)
- Acentrogobius chusanensis (Herre, 1940)
- Acentrogobius dayi Koumans, 1941 (Day's goby)
- Acentrogobius decaryi (Pellegrin, 1932)
- Acentrogobius gracilis (Bleeker, 1875) (Bluespotted mangrovegoby)
- Acentrogobius griseus (Day, 1876) (Grey goby)
- Acentrogobius horai (Fowler, 1925)
- Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker, 1853) (Robust mangrove goby)
- Acentrogobius limarius Allen, Erdmann & Hadiaty, 2015 (Batanta mud goby) [4]
- Acentrogobius madraspatensis (F. Day, 1868) (Manyband goby)
- †Acentrogobius matsya Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith-based fossil species)[2]
- Acentrogobius moloanus (Herre, 1927) (Barcheek amoya)
- Acentrogobius multifasciatus (Herre, 1927)
- Acentrogobius pellidebilis Lee & Kim, 1992
- Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker, 1853) (Striped sandgoby)
- Acentrogobius quinquemaculatus Allen, 2017
- Acentrogobius simplex (Sauvage, 1880) (Bagamoyo goby)
- Acentrogobius therezieni Kiener, 1963
- Acentrogobius vanderloosi Allen, 2015 (Mudslope goby) [5]
- Acentrogobius veliensis (Geevarghese & John, 1982)
- Acentrogobius violarisi Allen, 2015 (Alotau goby) [5]
- Acentrogobius virgatulus (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
- Acentrogobius viridipunctatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Spotted green goby)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Acentrogobius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ a b Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. 97: 43–80. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Acentrogobius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ^ Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V.; Hadiaty, R.K. (2015). "Acentrogobius limarius, a new species of goby (Pisces: Gobiidae) from West Papua Province, Indonesia" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 15: 33–40.
- ^ a b Allen, G.R. (2015). "Descriptions of two new gobies (Gobiidae: Acentrogobius) from Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 14: 1–13.