Mauligobius
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Genus of fishes
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| Mauligobius maderensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Mauligobius P. J. Miller, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius maderensis Valenciennes, 1837
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Mauligobius is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Gobiidae native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The name of this genus honours the ichthyologist and taxidermist Günther Edmund Maul (1909-1997) of the Museu Municipal do Funchal on Madeira for his assistance in making material and information available which the author, Peter Miller, used in his research on Macaronesian gobies.[1]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Mauligobius maderensis (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Mauligobius nigri (Günther, 1861)
References
- ↑ "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 14 July 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/gobiiformes6/. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Mauligobius in FishBase. June 2013 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q749435 entry
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