Overview
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Eviota is a genus of reef-associated gobies currently with 48 described species distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region. These are very small fishes (females of most species are sexually mature at a standard length of 15 mm or less) and many species are commonly called pygmy gobies, while some are known as fringefin gobies.
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- Eviota abax
- Eviota afelei - Afele's fringefin goby
- Eviota albolineata - spotted fringefin goby
- Eviota ancora Greenfield & Suzuki, 2011[1]
- Eviota bifasciata - twostripe pygmy goby
- Eviota bimaculata - twospot fringefin goby
- Eviota cometa - comet pygmy goby
- Eviota disrupta
- Eviota distigma - twospot pygmy goby
- Eviota epiphanes
- Eviota fasciola - barred pygmy goby
- Eviota guttata - spotted pygmy goby
- Eviota herrei - Herre's pygmy goby
- Eviota hoesei
- Eviota indica
- Eviota infulata - infulata pygmy goby
- Eviota inutilis
- Eviota irrasa
- Eviota japonica
- Eviota karaspila Greenfield & Randall, 2010[2]
- Eviota lachdeberei - Lachdebere's pygmy goby
- Eviota lacrimae
- Eviota latifasciata - broad-banded pygmy goby
- Eviota melasma - melasma pygmy goby
- Eviota mikiae - white-line pygmy goby
- Eviota monostigma
- Eviota nebulosa - nebulous pygmy goby
- Eviota nigrispina Greenfield & Suzuki, 2010[3]
- Eviota nigriventris - blackbelly goby
- Eviota pardalota - leopard dwarf goby
- Eviota partimacula Randall, 2008 (formerly included in E. lachdeberei)
- Eviota pellucida - pellucida pygmy goby
- Eviota prasina - green bubble goby
- Eviota prasites - prasites pygmy goby
- Eviota pseudostigma
- Eviota punctulata - pepperfin pygmy goby
- Eviota queenslandica - Queensland pygmy goby
- Eviota raja
- Eviota readerae
- Eviota rubra
- Eviota rubriguttata Greenfield & Suzuki, 2011[1]
- Eviota saipanensis - Saipan pygmy goby
- Eviota sebreei - Sebree's pygmy goby
- Eviota sigillata - seven-figure pygmy goby
- Eviota smaragdus - smaragdus pygmy goby
- Eviota sparsa - speckled pygmy goby
- Eviota spilota
- Eviota storthynx - storthynx pygmy goby
- Eviota susanae
- Eviota zebrina
- Eviota zonura - naked-headed goby
References
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- ^ a b Greenfield, D.W. & Suzuki, T. (2011). "Two new goby species of the genus Eviota from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)." Zootaxa 2812: 63-68.
- ^ Greenfield, David W.; John E. Randall (2010). "Eviota karaspila, a new gobiid fish from Fiji (Teleostei: Gobiidae)". Zootaxa 2672: 61?68. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02672p068f.pdf.
- ^ Greenfield, David; Toshiyuki Suzuki (2010). "Eviota nigrispina, a New Goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)". Zootaxa 2655: 57?62. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02655p062f.pdf.
- FishBase
- New Species of Fish from the Southwest Pacific
- Eviota at the Encyclopedia of Life
Taxonomy
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The Genus Eviota is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 73 species and subspecies in the Genus Eviota: E. afelei (Afele´s Fringefin Goby) · E. afeli · E. albolineata (White-Barred Pygmy-Goby) · E. bifasciata (Two-Stripe Pygmy-Goby) · E. bimaculata (Twospot Fringedfin Goby) · E. caesiura okinawae (Red-Spotted Dwarfgoby) · E. cf · E. cometa (Comet Pygmy Goby) · E. cometae · E. corneliae · E. disrupta · E. distigma (Twospot Pygmy Goby) · E. ephiphanes (Dwarf Blenny) · E. epiphanes (Divine Dwarf Goby) · E. fasciola (Barred Pygmy Goby) · E. grammistes (Red-Spotted Pygmy-Goby) · E. guttata (Spotted Pygmy Goby) · E. gymnocephala · E. gymnocephalus · E. herrei (Herre´s Pygmy Goby) · E. hoesei · E. indica · E. infalatus · E. infulata (Shoulder-Patch Pygmy-Goby) · E. inutilis · E. lachdeberei (Lachdebrere´s Pygmy Goby) · E. latifasciata (Broad-Banded Pygmy Goby) · E. melasma (Black-Spotted Pygmy-Goby) · E. mikiae (White-Line Pygmy Goby) · E. monostigma · E. natalis · E. nc · E. nebulosa (Nebulous Pygmy Goby) · E. nigriventris (Black-Spot Pygmy-Goby) · E. ocellifer · E. pardalota (Leopard Dwarfgoby) · E. partimacula · E. pellucida (Pellucida Pygmy Goby) · E. personata (Shoulder-Patch Pygmy-Goby) · E. prasina (Pepperfin Pygmy Goby) · E. prasites (Prasites Pygmy Goby) · E. pruinosa · E. pseudostigma · E. punctulata (Pepperfin Pygmy Goby) · E. queensladnica · E. queenslandica (Queensland Pygmy Goby) · E. raja · E. readerae · E. saipanensis (Saipan Pygmy Goby) · E. sealei · E. sebreei (Sebree's Pygmy Goby) · E. sigillata (Seven-Figure Pygmy Goby) · E. smaragdus (Smaragdus Pygmy Goby) · E. sparsa (Speckled Pygmy Goby) · E. spp · E. storthynx (Belly-Spotted Pygmy-Goby) · E. tigrina · E. variola · E. viridis · E. viridis queenslandica (Queensland Pygmy Goby) · E. zebrina (Five-Bar Pygmy-Goby) · E. zebrinz · E. zonura (False Saddled Snake Eel)
References
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- ^ a b Greenfield, D.W. & Suzuki, T. (2011). "Two new goby species of the genus Eviota from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)." Zootaxa 2812: 63-68.
- ^ Greenfield, David W.; John E. Randall (2010). "Eviota karaspila, a new gobiid fish from Fiji (Teleostei: Gobiidae)". Zootaxa 2672: 61?68. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02672p068f.pdf.
- ^ Greenfield, David; Toshiyuki Suzuki (2010). "Eviota nigrispina, a New Goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)". Zootaxa 2655: 57?62. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02655p062f.pdf.
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