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Callogobius mannarensis Rangarajan

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  • 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

76. Callogobius mannarensis Rangarajan

Callogobius mannarensis Rangarajan, 1970: 347 (Vedalai, Gulf of Mannar, 9°16’N, 79°08’E).— Allen and Erdmann 2012: 966 (Andaman Islands); Jayachandran et al. 2019: 15 (Kodungallur-Azhikode Estuary); Sreeraj and Sen 2024: 46 (Andaman and Nicobar islands, Tamil Nadu); Kosygin et al. 2024: 25 (India); Allen and Erdmann 2024: 1110 (Andaman Islands).

Remarks: This is accepted as a valid species by Delventhal and Mooi (2023), although the holotype is missing.

Jayachandran et al. (2019) do not provide information as to how the fishes were identified.

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 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5801.1.1

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Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/531F4E621B59D94CFFED56B3FD31980A (URL)
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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5801.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rangarajan
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Gobiidae
Genus
Callogobius
Species
mannarensis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Rangarajan, K. (1970) A new species of Callogobius (family Gobidae: Pisces) from Gulf of Mannar, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 10 (2), 347-353.
  • Allen, G. R. & Erdmann, M. V. (2012) Reef fishes of the East Indies. Vol. III. Tropical Reef Research, Perth, 1260 pp.
  • Jayachandran, P. R., Bijoy Nandan, S., Jima, M., Sreedevi, O. K., Philomina, J. & Prabhakaran, M. P. (2019) Bioecology of macrobenthic communities in the microtidal monsoonal Kodungallur - Azhikode Estuary, southwest coast of India. Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management, 24 (4), 372-390. https://doi.org/10.1111/lre.12292
  • 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.
  • Allen, G. R. & Erdmann, M. V. (2024) Reef fishes of the East Indies. Vol. III. 2 nd Edition. Tropical Reef Research, Perth, 1466 pp.
  • Delventhal, N. & Mooi, R. (2023) Callogobius williamsi, a new species of goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Marquesas Islands, with notes on the status of all nominal Callogobius species. Zootaxa, 5339 (5), 449-464. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5339.5.3