Lotilia

Lotilia
Lotilia Graciliosa at house reef (Cebu, Philippines)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Lotilia
Klausewitz, 1960
Type species
Lotilia graciliosa
Klausewitz, 1960

Lotilia is a small genus of gobies native to the Indo-Pacific region. The members of this genus are commensal with shrimps of the genus Alpheus.

Species

There are two recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lotilia". FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. ↑ Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. & Senou, H. (2012): Review of the shrimp-associated goby genus Lotilia (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species from the West Pacific. Zootaxa, 3362: 54–64.