Tomiyamichthys is a genus of gobies found from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean.
| Tomiyamichthys | |
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| Tomiyamichthys oni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Tomiyamichthys J. L. B. Smith, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| Cryptocentrus oni Tomiyama, 1936
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| Synonyms | |
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Eilatia Klausewitz, 1974 | |
Etymology edit
The name of this genus honours the Japanese ichthyologist Itiro Tomiyama of the Tokyo Imperial University, who described the type species, Tomiyamichthys oni, in 1936.[1]
Species edit
There are currently 15 recognized species in this genus:
- Tomiyamichthys alleni Iwata, Ohnishi & Hirata, 2000 (Allen's shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma Bogorodsky, Kovačić & J. E. Randall, 2011
- Tomiyamichthys elliotensis (Lady Elliot Shrimp Goby, 2023)[2]
- Tomiyamichthys fourmanoiri (J. L. B. Smith, 1956)
- Tomiyamichthys gomezi G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Gomez' shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys lanceolatus (Yanagisawa, 1978) (Lanceolate shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys latruncularius (Klausewitz, 1974) (Fan shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys levisquama Hoese, Shibukawa & J. W. Johnson, 2016[3]
- Tomiyamichthys nudus G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Scale-less shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys oni (Tomiyama, 1936) (Monster shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys praealta (Lachner & McKinney, 1981) (Tall-fin shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys russus (Cantor, 1849) (Ocellated shrimpgoby) [3]
- Tomiyamichthys smithi (I. S. Chen & L. S. Fang, 2003) (Smith's shrimpgoby)
- Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus J. E. Randall & I. S. Chen, 2007 (Long-spot shrimpgoby) [4]
- Tomiyamichthys zonatus G. R. Allen, 2015 (Brown-band shrimpgoby) [5]
References edit
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (r-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ New fish species found in the Great Barrier Reef Phys.org October 9, 2023 accesssed December 2, 2023
- ^ a b Hoese, D.F., Shibukawa, K. & Johnson, J.W. (2016): Description of a new species of Tomiyamichthys from Australia with a discussion of the generic name. Zootaxa, 4079 (5): 582-594.
- ^ Randall, J.E. & Chen, I.S. (2007). "Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus, a new species of gobiid fish from Indonesia". Zoological Studies. 46 (6): 651–655.
- ^ Allen, G.R. (2015). "Descriptions of two new species of shrimpgobies (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus and Tomiyamichthys) from Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 16: 67–81.
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