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Bathygobius niger
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia eviotahkl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3577 - 7146 & Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia eviotahkl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3577 - 7146 & United Nations Development Programme, 174 Jor Bagh, New Delhi 110 003, India amurugam. murugan @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0004 - 3344 - 2742
Description
70. Bathygobius niger (Smith)
Pyosicus niger Smith, 1960: 312 (Bizana coast, Pondoland).
Koumansiasis macrocephalus Rao, 1968: 17, Figs. A–C (Rock pool at Visahapatnam).
Bathygobius niger — Parenti 2021: 103 (Visakhapatnam, India); Sreeraj and Sen 2024: 42 (Andhra Pradesh); Kosygin et al. 2024: 24 (India).
Remarks: Specimens from Kovalam, Kerala in BPBM, are identified as this species by Doug Hoese.
Notes
Published as part of Larson, Helen K., 2026, The gobioid fishes of India-An annotated list, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 5801 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5801.1.1
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- Cites
- Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/531F4E621B5DD948FFED5643FAA09995 (URL)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5801.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF09FF8BFF8727288C28FFCBFFECFFDC (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/E6AE2688-A5D1-4B53-971E-5C88ED35403A (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/033087F3FF95273A8CBFFB30FAE4FA68 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Bathygobius
- Species
- niger
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bathygobius niger (Smith, 1960) sec. Larson, 2026
References
- Rao, V. V. (1968) A new gobiid fish from Visakhapatnam. Journal of Natural History, 2 (1), 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222936800770591
- Parenti, P. (2021) A checklist of the gobioid fishes of the world (Percomorpha: Gobiiformes). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 8 (Supplement 1), 1-480.
- Sreeraj, C. R. & Sen, A. (2024) Annotated checklist of the Indian gobioid fishes (order: Gobiiformes). Species, 25 (75), 1-146. https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i76.e37s1701
- Kosygin, L., Mohapatra, A., Bineesh, K. K., Sharma, I., Jadhav, S. S. & Khynriam, D. (2024) Fauna of India Checklist: Pisces. Online Version 1.0. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 97 pp.