Oxyurichthys is a genus of fish in the subfamily Gobionellinae, commonly known as arrowfin gobies. They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans; one species is also known from the western Atlantic Ocean.[1] Most species live in shallow waters under 10 meters deep over fine substrates such as silt.[1]
Species
The following species are recognized in the genus Oxyurichthys:[2]
- Oxyurichthys auchenolepis Bleeker, 1876 (scaly-nape tentacle goby)
- Oxyurichthys chinensis Pezold & Larson, 2015
- Oxyurichthys cornutus McCulloch & Waite, 1918 (horned tentacle goby)
- Oxyurichthys guibei J.L.B. Smith, 1959
- Oxyurichthys heisei Pezold, 1998
- Oxyurichthys keiensis (J.L.B. Smith, 1938) (Kei goby)
- Oxyurichthys lemayi (J.L.B. Smith, 1947) (lace goby)
- Oxyurichthys limophilus Pezold & Larson, 2015
- Oxyurichthys lonchotus (O. P. Jenkins, 1903) (speartail mudgoby)
- Oxyurichthys microlepis (Bleeker, 1849) (maned goby)
- Oxyurichthys mindanensis (Herre, 1927)
- Oxyurichthys notonema (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (threadfin mudgoby)
- Oxyurichthys omanensis Fatah Zarei, Saud M. Al Jufaili and Esmaeili. 2022[3]
- Oxyurichthys ophthalmonema (Bleeker, 1856) (eyebrow goby)
- Oxyurichthys papuensis (Valenciennes, 1837) (frogface goby)
- Oxyurichthys paulae Pezold, 1998 (jester goby)
- Oxyurichthys petersii (Klunzinger, 1871)
- Oxyurichthys stigmalophius (Mead & J. E. Böhlke, 1958) (spotfin goby)
- Oxyurichthys takagi Pezold, 1998
- Oxyurichthys tentacularis (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Oxyurichthys uronema (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (longtail tentacle goby)
- Oxyurichthys viridis Herre, 1927
- Oxyurichthys visayanus Herre, 1927
- Oxyurichthys zeta Pezold & Larson, 2015
References
- ^ a b Pezold F (1998). "Three new species of Oxyurichthys (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans". Copeia. 1998 (3): 687–695. doi:10.2307/1447798. JSTOR 1447798.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Oxyurichthys". FishBase. November 2021 version.
- ^ Fatah Zarei, Saud M. Al Jufaili and Hamid Reza Esmaeili. 2022. Oxyurichthys omanensis sp. nov., A New Eyebrow Goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Oman. Zootaxa. 5182(4);361-376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.4.3
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