Cryptocentrus
Cryptocentrus | |
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Cryptocentrus cinctus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Genus: | Cryptocentrus Valenciennes, 1837 |
Type species | |
Gobius cryptocentrus Valenciennes, 1837
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Synonyms | |
Alepidogobius Bleeker, 1874 |
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Cryptocentrus also known as Watchman gobies, and one of the genera known as shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, is a genus of gobies native to tropical marine waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Species[]
There are currently 35 recognized species in this genus:
- (, 1978) (White-backed shrimpgoby)
- (Whitley, 1953) (Bluelined shrimpgoby)
- (Herre, 1933) (Blue-speckled prawn-goby)
- Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Harlequin prawn-goby)
- H. M. Smith, 1945
- Herre, 1927 (Cebu shrimpgoby)
- Cryptocentrus cinctus (Herre, 1936) (Yellow prawn-goby)
- (Valenciennes, 1837) (Ninebar prawn-goby)
- G. R. Allen & J. E. Randall, 2011 (Bluespot shrimpgoby)
- (Bleeker, 1853) (Lagoon shrimpgoby)
- Bleeker, 1876
- G. R. Allen, 2015 (Pointedfin shrimpgoby) [1]
- Cryptocentrus fasciatus (Playfair (fr), 1867) (Y-bar shrimpgoby)
- , 1978
- (Herre, 1934) (Inexplicable shrimpgoby)
- (Whitley, 1956) (Signal goby)
- Cryptocentrus leonis H. M. Smith, 1931
- Cryptocentrus leptocephalus Bleeker, 1876 (Pink-speckled shrimpgoby)
- (Günther, 1872) (Saddled prawn-goby)
- Klausewitz, 1960 (Luther's prawn-goby)
- (J. L. B. Smith, 1959)
- Fowler, 1937 (Maude's shrimpgoby)
- (Bleeker, 1860)
- G. R. Allen & J. E. Randall, 2011 (Multibarred shrimpgoby)
- (, 1978)
- (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Regan, 1908 (Blue-speckled prawn-goby)
- Cryptocentrus pavoninoides (Bleeker, 1849)
- (Bleeker, 1853)
- (Rendahl (de), 1924)
- N. Kuroda, 1956 (Shige shrimpgoby)
- Cryptocentrus strigilliceps (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906) (Target shrimpgoby)
- & Larson, 2004 (Tentacle shrimpgoby)
- Fowler, 1937
- , 1936
References[]
- ^ Allen, G.R. (2015). "Descriptions of two new species of shrimpgobies (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus and Tomiyamichthys) from Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 16: 67–81.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Categories:
- Cryptocentrus
- Gobiinae
- Marine fish genera
- Taxa named by Achille Valenciennes
- Gobiidae stubs