Rhinogobius

Rhinogobius
Rhinogobius duospilus
Rhinogobius brunneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Rhinogobius
T. N. Gill, 1859
Type species
Rhinogobius similis
T. N. Gill, 1859
Synonyms

Pseudorhinogobius Zhong & Wu, 1998
Tukugobius Herre, 1927

Rhinogobius is a genus of primarily freshwater gobies in the family Oxudercidae, native to tropical and temperate parts of eastern Asia. Most are small, streamlined in shape, and often sexually dimorphic. Few are of commercial importance, but R. duospilus is fairly widely traded as an aquarium fish.

Taxonomy

Species

Rhinogobius sp. 'CB' from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Rhinogobius delicatus, Taiwan
Rhinogobius sp. from Pulangi River, Mindanao, Philippines

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

In addition, there are four undescribed species in Japan awaiting further study:

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Rhinogobius". FishBase. January 2016 version.
  2. ↑ Xia, J.-H., H.-L. Wu, C.-H. Li, Y.-Q. Wu and S.-H. Liu 2018 (12 Apr.), A new species of Rhinogobius (Pisces: Gobiidae), with analyses of its DNA barcode. Zootaxa 4407 (no. 4): 553-562.
  3. ↑ Liu, Xin; Chen, Zhong-Guang; Shu, Yi-Fan; Huang, Jun-Hao; Liu, Kai; Yu, Yi (2026-05-28). "Rhinogobius mengyangensis : a new species of freshwater goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from Sichuan Province, southwestern China". ZooKeys (1280): 333–347. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1280.188225. ISSN 1313-2970.
  4. 1 2 Huang, S.-P., Chen, I-S. & Shao, K.-T. (2016): A new species of Rhinogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Zhejiang Province, China. Ichthyological Research, 63 (4): 470-479.
  5. ↑ Suzuki, T., Chen, I-S. & Senou, H. (2011): A new species of Rhinogobius Gill, 1859 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Bonin Islands, Japan. Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 19 (6): 693-701.
  6. ↑ Chen, I-S. & Miller, P.J. (2013): A new freshwater goby of Rhinogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Hainan Island, Southern China. Archived 2014-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 21 (Suppl.) [2013]: 124-129.
  7. ↑ Suzuki, T., Shibukawa, K., Senou, H. & Chen, I-S. (2015): Redescription of Rhinogobius similis Gill 1859 (Gobiidae: Gobionellinae), the type species of the genus Rhinogobius Gill 1859, with designation of the neotype. Ichthyological Research, 63 (2): 227-238.