Bathygobius

Genus of fishes

Bathygobius

Cheekscaled frill-goby (B. cotticeps)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Bathygobius Bleeker, 1878
Type species
Gobius nebulopunctatus Valenciennes, 1837
Synonyms
Chlamydes O. P. Jenkins, 1903 Koumansiasis Visweswara Rao, 1967 Mapo Smitt, 1900 Pyosicus J. L. B. Smith, 1960

Bathygobius is a circumtropical genus of fish in the family Gobiidae.^[1]

Species

There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

Bathygobius aeolosoma (J. D. Ogilby, 1889)
Bathygobius albopunctatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Whitespotted goby)
Bathygobius andrei (Sauvage, 1880)
Bathygobius antilliensis Tornabene, C. C. Baldwin & Pezold, 2010 (Antilles frillfin)
Bathygobius arundelii (Garman, 1899)
Bathygobius burtoni (O'Shaughnessy, 1875)
Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune, 1880)
Bathygobius coalitus (E. T. Bennett, 1832) (Whitespotted frillgoby)
Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker, 1854) (Cocos frill-goby)
Bathygobius cotticeps (Steindachner, 1879) (Cheekscaled frill-goby)
Bathygobius curacao (Metzelaar, 1919) (Notchtongue goby)
Bathygobius cyclopterus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Spotted frillgoby)
Bathygobius fishelsoni Goren, 1978
Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell, 1830) (Dusky frillgoby)
Bathygobius geminatus Tornabene, C. C. Baldwin & Pezold, 2010 (Twin-spotted frillfin)
Bathygobius hongkongensis C. Lam, 1986
Bathygobius karachiensis Hoda & Goren, 1990
Bathygobius kreftii (Steindachner, 1866) (Krefft's frillgoby)
Bathygobius laddi (Fowler, 1931) (Brownboy goby)
Bathygobius lineatus (Jenyns, 1841) (Southern frillfin)
Bathygobius meggitti (Hora & Mukerji, 1936) (Meggitt's goby)
Bathygobius mystacium Ginsburg, 1947 (Island frillfin)
Bathygobius niger (J. L. B. Smith, 1960) (Black minigoby)
Bathygobius ostreicola (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1916)
Bathygobius panayensis (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1907)
Bathygobius petrophilus (Bleeker, 1853)
Bathygobius ramosus Ginsburg, 1947 (Panamic frillfin)
Bathygobius smithi R. Fricke, 1999
Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes, 1837) (Frillfin goby)

References

^ Miller, PJ; Stefanni S. (2001). "The eastern Pacific species of Bathygobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 49 (Supplement 1): 141–156. PMID 15260163. Abstract
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bathygobius". FishBase. April 2013 version.