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Priolepis semidoliata

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

152. Priolepis semidoliata (Valenciennes)

Gobius semidoliatus Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1837: 67 (Vanikolo).

Zonogobius semidoliatus — Herre 1941: 3887 (Andamans); Mukerji 1935: 267 (N.W. Ross Island, Andamans); Koumans 1940a: 16 (south of Sound Island, North Andaman); Koumans 1941: 251 (Paye or Paway Island; Outram Island; Muthivaratu Paat; South Island, N. Andaman); Koumans 1953: 150 (India).

Priolepis semidoliatus — Rao et al. 2000: 309 (South Andaman; Ritchies Archipelago; Little Andaman); Rao 2009: 348 (Andaman and Nicobar islands); Rajan et al. 2021: 119 (Andaman and Nicobar islands).

Priolepis semidoliata — Rao et al. 2000: 309 (South Andaman; Ritchies Archipelago; Little Andaman); Joshi et al. 2016: 49 (Gulf of Mannar); Mogalekar et al. 2018: 251 (Tamil Nadu); Sreeraj and Sen 2024: 82 (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep).

Priolepis compita — Ramakrishnan et al. 2010a: 39 (Sound Island; Mayabunder Island; North Andaman); Rajan et al. 2021: 119 (Andaman and Nicobar islands); Sreeraj and Sen 2024: 82 (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu); Kosygin et al. 2024: 27 (India).

Remarks: Ramakrishnan et al. ’s 2010a identification is in error.

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 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5801.1.1

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Valenciennes
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Gobiidae
Genus
Priolepis
Species
semidoliata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Priolepis semidoliata (Valenciennes, 1837) sec. Larson, 2026

References

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  • Mukerji, D. D. (1935) Notes on some rare and interesting fishes from the Andaman Islands, with descriptions of two new freshwater gobies. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 37 (Pt 3), 259-277. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v37/i3/1935/162969
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