Fusigobius

Fusigobius
Fusigobius neophytus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Fusigobius Whitley, 1930
Type species
Gobius neophytus Günther, 1877
Synonyms
Thalassogobius Herre, 1953

Fusigobius is a genus of coral reef inhabiting gobies found throughout the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:^[1]

• Fusigobius aureus I. S. Chen & K. T. Shao, 1997
• Fusigobius duospilus Hoese & Reader, 1985 (Barenape Goby)
• Fusigobius inframaculatus (J. E. Randall, 1994) (Blotched Sand Goby)
• Fusigobius longispinus Goren, 1978 (Orange-spotted Sand-goby)
• Fusigobius maximus (J. E. Randall, 2001)
• Fusigobius melacron (J. E. Randall, 2001)
• Fusigobius neophytus (Günther, 1877) (Common Fusegoby)
• Fusigobius pallidus (J. E. Randall, 2001)
• Fusigobius signipinnis Hoese & Obika, 1988 (Signalfin Goby)
• Fusigobius venadicus Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022^[2] (otolith based fossil species, Burdigalian)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Fusigobius". FishBase. June 2013 version.
2. 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.