Taenioides
| Taenioides | |
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| Slender eel goby (T. gracilis) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Taenioides Lacépède, 1800 |
| Type species | |
| Taenioides hermannii Lacépède, 1800 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Taenioides is a genus of gobies native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[1]
Species
There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Taenioides anguillaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Eel worm goby)
- Taenioides buchanani (F. Day, 1873) (Burmese gobyeel)
- Taenioides caniscapulus Roxas & Ablan, 1938
- Taenioides cirratus (Blyth, 1860) (Bearded worm goby)
- Taenioides eruptionis (Bleeker, 1849)
- Taenioides esquivel J. L. B. Smith, 1947 (Bulldog eelgoby)
- Taenioides gracilis (Valenciennes, 1837) (Slender eel goby)
- Taenioides jacksoni J. L. B. Smith, 1943 (Bearded eelgoby)
- Taenioides kentalleni Murdy & J. E. Randall, 2002
- Taenioides limicola C. L. Smith, 1964
- Taenioides mordax (De Vis, 1883)
- Taenioides nigrimarginatus Hora, 1924 (Blackfin eel goby)
- Taenioides purpurascens (De Vis, 1884)
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of XXXXX in FishBase. June 2013 version.
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