Acentrogobius Explained

Acentrogobius is a genus of gobies native to marine, fresh and brackish waters of the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Acentrogobius matsya is an otolith-based fossil species found in the Burdigalian (Miocene) Quilon Formation of southwestern India.^[1]

Species

There are currently 27 recognized species in this genus:

• Acentrogobius andhraensis (Herre, 1944)^[2]
• Acentrogobius audax Smith, 1959^[2]
• Acentrogobius brevirostris (Günther, 1861)^[2]
• Acentrogobius caninus Valenciennes, 1837 (Tropical sand goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius cenderawasih G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Cenderawasih goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius chlorostigmatoides Bleeker, 1849 (Greenspot goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius cyanomos Bleeker, 1849^[2]
• Acentrogobius dayi Koumans, 1941 (Day's goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius ennorensis Menon & Rema Devi, 1980^[2]
• Acentrogobius griseus F. Day, 1876 (Grey goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius janthinopterus Bleeker, 1853 (Robust mangrove goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius limarius G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Hadiaty, 2015 (Batanta mud goby) ^{[3] [2]}
• Acentrogobius masoni F. Day, 1873^[2]
• Acentrogobius moloanus Herre, 1927 (Barcheek amoya)^[2]
• Acentrogobius nebulosus Forsskål, 1775 (Shadow goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius pellidebilis Y. J. Lee & I. S. Kim, 1992^[2]
• Acentrogobius pflaumii Bleeker, 1853 (Striped sandgoby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius quinquemaculatus Allen, 2017
• Acentrogobius simplex Sauvage, 1880 (Bagamoyo goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius suluensis Herre, 1927 (Sulu goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius therezieni Kiener, 1963^[2]
• Acentrogobius vanderloosi G. R. Allen, 2015 (Mudslope goby) ^{[4] [2]}
• Acentrogobius viganensis Steindachner, 1893^[2]
• Acentrogobius violarisi G. R. Allen, 2015 (Alotau goby) ^{[4] [2]}
• Acentrogobius virgatulus (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)^[2]
• Acentrogobius viridipunctatus Valenciennes, 1837 (Spotted green goby)^[2]
• Acentrogobius matsya Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith-based fossil species)

Notes and References

1. Carolin . Nora . Bajpai . Sunil . Maurya . Abhayanand Singh . Schwarzhans . Werner . 2022 . New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India . PalZ . 10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9.
2. Acentrogobius Bleeker, 1874 . 206293 . 2023-11-25 .
3. Allen, G.R. . Erdmann, M.V. . Hadiaty, R.K. . 2015 . Acentrogobius limarius, a new species of goby (Pisces: Gobiidae) from West Papua Province, Indonesia . Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation . 15 . 33–40 .
4. Allen, G.R. . 2015 . Descriptions of two new gobies (Gobiidae: Acentrogobius) from Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea . Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation . 14 . 1–13 .