Calamiana illota
| Calamiana illota | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Calamiana Herre, 1945 |
| Species: | C. illota |
| Binomial name | |
| Calamiana illota Larson, 1999 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Calamiana illota is a species of goby native to marine, brackish and fresh waters of Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines. This species is the only known member of its genus.[2]
Taxonomic Issues
While currently considered the only species in the genus Calamiana in FishBase, recent studies have strongly suggested that this species in reality belongs in the genus Eugnathogobius of which Calamiana would be a junior synonym.[3]
References
- ↑ Huckstorf, V. 2012. Eugnathogobius illotus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 August 2013.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Calamiana illota" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ↑ Larson, H. K. (2009): Review of the gobiid fish genera Eugnathogobius and Pseudogobiopsis (Gobioidei: Gobiidae: Gobionellinae), with descriptions of three new species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology v. 57 (no. 1): 127-181.
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