Oligolepis
| Oligolepis | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Oligolepis acutipennis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Oligolepis Bleeker, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius melanostigma Bleeker, 1849 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Aparrius Jordan & Richardson, 1908 | |
Oligolepis is a genus of fish in the goby family Gobiidae, native to marine, fresh and brackish waters of the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
- Oligolepis acutipennis (Valenciennes, 1837) (Sharptail goby)
- Oligolepis cylindriceps (Hora, 1923)
- Oligolepis dasi (Talwar, Chatterjee & Dev Roy, 1982)
- Oligolepis formosanus (Nichols, 1958) [1]
- Oligolepis jaarmani (M. C. W. Weber, 1913)
- Oligolepis nijsseni (Menon & N. Govindan, 1977) [1]
- Oligolepis stomias (H. M. Smith, 1941)
References
- 1 2 Pezold, F.L. & Larson, H.K. (2015). "A revision of the fish genus Oxyurichthys (Gobioidei: Gobiidae) with descriptions of four new species" (PDF). Zootaxa 3988 (1): 1–95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3988.1.1.
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