Papuligobius Explained

Papuligobius is a genus of fish in the goby subfamily, Gobionellinae, native to Southeast Asia. It was erected in 2003 to house the species P. uniporus, newly described from Laos. A second species, P. ocellatus, was transferred from genus Rhinogobius at the same time.^[1]

Species

The genus includes:

• Papuligobius ocellatus (Fowler, 1937)
• Papuligobius uniporus I. S. Chen & Kottelat, 2003

Notes and References

1. Chen, I. and M. Kottelat. (2003). Papuligobius uniporus, a new genus and species of freshwater goby (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from north-eastern Laos. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 14(3) 243-48.