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Bryaninops loki Larson 1985

  • 1. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324
  • 2. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324 & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Gewann Rosenstein / Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. ronald. fricke @ smns-bw. de; ronfricke @ web. de; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1476 - 6990 Corresponding author. D. Golani: dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il & National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324

Description

Bryaninops loki Larson 1985 − Loki whip-goby

Gulf of Suez: −

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Suzuki et al. 2012).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Suzuki et al. 2012).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Chagos Archipelago east to Ryukyu and Line islands.

IUCN (2016): Least Concern.

Notes

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2026, Revised checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea, including distribution in the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba, with notes on endemism and Lessepsian migration, pp. 1-257 in Zootaxa 5780 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5780.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19175291

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Larson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Gobiidae
Genus
Bryaninops
Species
loki
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bryaninops loki Larson, 1985 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2026

References

  • Larson, H. K. (1985) A revision of the gobiid genus Bryaninops (Pisces), with a description of six new species. The Beagle (Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences), 2 (1), 57-93. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.262826
  • Suzuki, T., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Randall, J. E. (2012) Gobiid fishes of the genus Bryaninops from the Red Sea, with description of two new species and two new records. Zootaxa, 3170 (1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3170.1.1