Lotilia is a small genus of gobies native to the Indo-Pacific region. The members of this genus are commensal with shrimps of the genus Alpheus.
| Lotilia | |
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| Lotilia Graciliosa at house reef (Cebu, Philippines) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Lotilia Klausewitz, 1960 |
| Type species | |
| Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960
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Species
editThere are two recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, 1960 (Whitecap goby)
- Lotilia klausewitzi Shibukawa, T. Suzuki & Senou, 2012[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lotilia". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. & Senou, H. (2012): Review of the shrimp-associated goby genus Lotilia (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species from the West Pacific. Zootaxa, 3362: 54–64.
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