Gobiosoma

Gobiosoma is a genus of gobies native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of the Americas.

Gobiosoma
Gobiosoma bosc
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Gobiosoma
Girard, 1858
Type species
Gobiosoma molestum, synonym of Gobiosoma bosc
Girard, 1858[1]
Synonyms

Enypnias Jordan & Evermann, 1898 [2]
Garmannia Jordan & Evermann, 1895
Gerhardinus Meek & Hildebrand, 1928

Species

Several additional species were formerly included in this Gobiosoma, but these have been moved to Elacatinus and Tigrigobius. There are currently 19 recognized species in Gobiosoma, but Gobiosoma pallida is a species inquirenda:[3]

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Gobiosoma". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  2. Tornabene, L. & Van Tassell, J.L. (2014): Redescription of the goby genus Gobiosoma (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini), with the synonymy of the genus Enypnias. Journal of Natural History, 48 (23-24): 1413-1437.
  3. Keith, P., Lord, C. & Larson, H.K. (2017): Review of Schismatogobius (Gobiidae) from Papua New Guinea to Samoa, with description of seven new species. Cybium, 41 (1): 45-66.
  4. Van Tassell, J.L., Joyeux, J.-C., Macieira, R.M. & Tornabene, L. (2015): Status of Gobiosoma (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Brazil: description of a new species, redescription of G. hemigymnum, molecular phylogeny of the genus, and key to Atlantic species. Zootaxa, 4007 (4): 451–480.


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