Pomatoschistus is a genus of gobies native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Pomatoschistus
Sand Goby (P. minutus), the type species of the genus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Pomatoschistus
T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Gobius minutus
Pallas, 1770
Synonyms
  • Engrauligobius Iljin, 1930
  • Iljinia de Buen, 1930
  • Ninnia de Buen, 1930
  • Ninnigobius Whitley, 1951
  • Syrrhothonus Chabanaud, 1933

Species edit

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pomatoschistus in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. ^ Semin Engin & Deniz İnnal (2017). "A new species of Pomatoschistus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Southern Anatolia". Zoology in the Middle East. 63 (4): 316–324. doi:10.1080/09397140.2017.1361187. S2CID 90904369. Abstract
  3. ^ Engin, S.; Seyhan, D. (October 2017). "A new species of Pomatoschistus (Teleostei, Gobiidae): the Mediterranean's smallest marine fish: mediterranean sea's smallest fish species". Journal of Fish Biology. 91 (4): 1208–1223. doi:10.1111/jfb.13455.