Varicus

Genus of fishes

Varicus

Varicus lacerta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Gobiiformes
Family:  | Gobiidae
Genus:  | Varicus
C. R. Robins & J. E. Böhlke, 1961
Type species
Varicus bucca

C. R. Robins & J. E. Böhlke, 1961

Varicus is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. They are native to the western Atlantic Ocean.[1]

The genus was recently reexamined, and several new species were described and added to the group in 2016.[2]

Species include:[2]

* Varicus adamsi Gilmore, Van Tassell & Tornabene 2016 (twilight goby)
* Varicus benthonis (Ginsburg, 1953)
* Varicus bucca C. R. Robins & J. E. Böhlke, 1961
* Varicus cephalocellatus Gilmore, Van Tassell & Baldwin, 2016 (ocellated splitfin goby)
* Varicus decorum Van Tassell, Baldwin & Tornabene, 2016 (decorated splitfin goby)
* Varicus lacerta Tornabene, Robertson & Baldwin, 2016[3] (Godzilla goby)
* Varicus marilynae Gilmore, 1979 (Orangebelly goby)
* Varicus nigritus Gilmore, Van Tassell & Baldwin, 2016 (banded splitfin goby)
* Varicus prometheus Fuentes, Baldwin, Robertson, Lardizábal & Tornabene, 2023 (Promethean goby)[4]
* Varicus roatanensis Fuentes, Baldwin, Robertson, Lardizábal & Tornabene, 2023 (Roatan goby)[4]
* Varicus veliguttatus Van Tassell, Baldwin & Gilmore, 2016 (spotted-sail goby)
* Varicus vespa (Hastings & Bortone, 1981)

The whiteband goby (Paedovaricus imswe) was formerly known as Varicus imswe.[2] This genus is closely related to genus Chriolepis, and now contains some species formerly included there.[2]

## References

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1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Varicus". FishBase. June 2013 version.
2. ^ a b c d Tornabene, L.; et al. (2016). "Molecular phylogeny, analysis of character evolution, and submersible collections enable a new classification of a diverse group of gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Nes subgroup), including nine new species and four new genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (4): 764–812\. doi:10.1111/zoj.12394.
3. ^ Tornabene, L.; et al. (2016). "Varicus lacerta, a new species of goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup) from a mesophotic reef in the southern Caribbean". ZooKeys (596): 143–156\. Bibcode:2016ZooK..596..143T. doi:10.3897/zookeys.596.8217. PMC 4926659. PMID 27408581.
4. ^ a b Gay, Jeremy (2023-09-25). "Two New Species of Gobies Described from the Deep Reefs of the Caribbean". Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog. Retrieved 2023-10-14.

Taxon identifiers

Varicus|

* Wikidata: Q629657
* Wikispecies: Varicus
* BOLD: 111905
* CoL: 85Y4
* GBIF: 2376827
* iNaturalist: 92774
* IRMNG: 1063409
* ITIS: 172155
* NCBI: 1182211
* Open Tree of Life: 756584
* WoRMS: 271206

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