Genus Ctenogobiops Smith, 1959

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• Ctenogobiops Smith, J.L.B. 1959. Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae and Kraemeriidae of the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 13: 185-225 figs 1-42 pls 9-13 [191].

  Type species:

   Ctenogobiops crocineus Smith, 1959 by original designation.

 

Introduction

Material from Australia of the genus has not been studied. Consequently few reliably identified records are available.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

GOBIIDAE: Ctenogobiops maculosus (Fourmanoir, 1955) — Lubbock, R. & Polunin, N.V.C. 1977. Notes on the Indo-west Pacific genus Ctenogobiops (Teleostei : Gobiidae) with descriptions of three new species. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84(2): 505-514 figs 1-10 pls 1-3 [505] (restricted to Red Sea, removed Ctenogobiops crocineus from synonymy); Kovačić, M., Bogorodsky, S.V. & Randall, J.E. 2011. Redescription of the Red Sea gobiid fish Ctenogobiops maculosus (Fourmanoir) and validation of C. crocineus Smith. Zootaxa 3054: 60–68 [61] (restricted to Red Sea)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls.

Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls.

Lubbock, R. & Polunin, N.V.C. 1977. Notes on the Indo-west Pacific genus Ctenogobiops (Teleostei : Gobiidae) with descriptions of three new species. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84(2): 505-514 figs 1-10 pls 1-3

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

Randall, J.E., Shao, K.-T. & Chen, J.-P. 2003. A review of the Indo-Pacific gobiid fish genus Ctenogobiops, with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Studies 42(4): 506-515

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Nov-2019	GOBIIDAE	21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018	GOBIOIDEI	21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
14-May-2015	GOBIOIDEI	21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED