Kelloggella Explained

Kelloggella is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. This genus is distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The genus name honours the American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867-1937) of Stanford University, the discoverer of Kelloggella cardinalis.^[1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:

• Kelloggella avaiki Tornabene, Deis & Erdmann, 2017 (Star-spangled goby)
• Kelloggella cardinalis D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906 (Cardinal goby)
• Kelloggella disalvoi J. E. Randall, 2009 (Disalvo's goby)
• Kelloggella oligolepis (O. P. Jenkins, 1903)
• Kelloggella quindecimfasciata (Fowler, 1946) (Central goby)
• Kelloggella tricuspidata (Herre, 1935)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p) . 3 September 2018 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 14 July 2018.