Tomiyamichthys
Tomiyamichthys oni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Tomiyamichthys
J. L. B. Smith, 1956
Type species
Cryptocentrus oni
Tomiyama, 1936
Synonyms

Eilatia Klausewitz, 1974
Flabelligobius Smith, 1956

Tomiyamichthys is a genus of gobies found from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean.

Etymology

The name of this genus honours the Japanese ichthyologist Itiro Tomiyama of the Tokyo Imperial University, who described the type species, Tomiyamichthys oni, in 1936.[1]

Species

There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:

  • Tomiyamichthys alleni Iwata, Ohnishi & Hirata, 2000 (Allen's shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma Bogorodsky, Kovačić & J. E. Randall, 2011
  • Tomiyamichthys elliotensis (Lady Elliot Shrimp Goby)[2]
  • Tomiyamichthys fourmanoiri (J. L. B. Smith, 1956)
  • Tomiyamichthys gomezi G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Gomez' shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys lanceolatus (Yanagisawa, 1978) (Lanceolate shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys latruncularius (Klausewitz, 1974) (Fan shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys levisquama Hoese, Shibukawa & J. W. Johnson, 2016[3]
  • Tomiyamichthys nudus G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Scale-less shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys oni (Tomiyama, 1936) (Monster shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys praealta (Lachner & McKinney, 1981) (Tall-fin shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys russus (Cantor, 1849) (Ocellated shrimpgoby) [3]
  • Tomiyamichthys smithi (I. S. Chen & L. S. Fang, 2003) (Smith's shrimpgoby)
  • Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus J. E. Randall & I. S. Chen, 2007 (Long-spot shrimpgoby) [4]
  • Tomiyamichthys zonatus G. R. Allen, 2015 (Brown-band shrimpgoby) [5]

References

  1. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (r-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  2. ↑ New fish species found in the Great Barrier Reef Phys.org October 9, 2023 accesssed December 2, 2023
  3. 1 2 Hoese, D.F., Shibukawa, K. & Johnson, J.W. (2016): Description of a new species of Tomiyamichthys from Australia with a discussion of the generic name. Zootaxa, 4079 (5): 582-594.
  4. ↑ Randall, J.E. & Chen, I.S. (2007). "Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus, a new species of gobiid fish from Indonesia". Zoological Studies. 46 (6): 651–655.
  5. ↑ Allen, G.R. (2015). "Descriptions of two new species of shrimpgobies (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus and Tomiyamichthys) from Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 16: 67–81.
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