Pseudogobius

Pseudogobius
Pseudogobius olorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Pseudogobius
Popta, 1922
Type species
None designated but Gobius javanicus Bleeker, 1856 should be designated as such
Synonyms
  • Lizagobius Whitley, 1933
  • Pseudogobius Koumans, 1931
  • Pseudogobius Aurich, 1938

Pseudogobius is a genus of fish in the goby family, Gobiidae. It is widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Species occur in freshwater and estuarine habitat types, such as mangroves and seagrass beds.

Species

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genus Pseudogobius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pseudogobius". FishBase. June 2017 version.
  3. ↑ Yokoo, T.; et al. (2008). "Juvenile morphology of three Pseudogobius species (Gobiidae) occurring in a mangrove estuary, southern Thailand" (PDF). Laguna. 15: 77–82.
  4. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pseudogobius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Helen K Larson; Michael P Hammer (15 April 2021). "A revision of the gobiid fish genus Pseudogobius (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Tridentigerinae), with description of seven new species from Australia and South-east Asia". Zootaxa. 4961 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4961.1.1. PMID 33903575.
  6. ↑ Huang, S.-P.; Shao, K.-T.; Huang, H.-M.; Chong, V.-C.; Chen, I-S. (2014). "An annotated checklist of gobioid fishes from the mangrove estuary of Matang, Malay Peninsula, with comments on a new Pseudogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) species" (PDF). Journal of Marine Science and Technology. 21 (Suppl): 106–116. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-25.
  7. ↑ "Bluespot Goby, Pseudogobius olorum (Sauvage 1880)". Fishes of Australia – via Museum Victoria.
  8. ↑ Chen, I-S.; Huang, S.-P.; Huang, H.-M. (2014). "A new species of genus Pseudogobius Popta (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from brackish waters of Taiwan and Southern China" (PDF). Journal of Marine Science and Technology. 21 (Suppl): 130–134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-25.