Taenioides buchanani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Taenioides
Species:
T. buchanani
Binomial name
Taenioides buchanani
(Day, 1873)

Taenioides buchanani, the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of goby found in the Indian Ocean along the east coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. This species can reach a length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in) TL.[1]

Etymology

The gobyeel is named in honor of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Taenioides buchanani" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  • Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.


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