Taenioides buchanani, the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of goby in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Taenioides buchanani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Taenioides
Species:
T. buchanani
Binomial name
Taenioides buchanani
(Day, 1873)
Synonyms
  • Amblyopus buchanani Day, 1873
  • Gobioides buchanani (Day, 1873)

Description edit

Taenioides buchanani can reach a total length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in).[2]

Etymology edit

The species epithet is named in honour of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Larson, H. (2019). "Taenioides buchanani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T123438566A123494852. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T123438566A123494852.en. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Taenioides buchanani" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  • Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.