Tomiyamichthys Explained

Tomiyamichthys is a genus of gobies found from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean.

Etymology

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

These are the current recognized species in this genus:

• Tomiyamichthys alleni Iwata, Ohnishi & Hirata, 2000 (Allen's shrimpgoby)
• Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma Bogorodsky, Kovačić & J. E. Randall, 2011
• Tomiyamichthys elliotensis G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Dudgeon, 2023(Lady Elliot Shrimp Goby, 2023)^[2]
• Tomiyamichthys emilyae Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann & Ilham Vemandra Utama, 2019^[3]
• 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^[4]
• 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) ^[4]
• Tomiyamichthys smithi (I. S. Chen & L. S. Fang, 2003) (Smith's shrimpgoby)
• Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus J. E. Randall & I. S. Chen, 2007 (Long-spot shrimpgoby) ^[5]
• Tomiyamichthys zonatus G. R. Allen, 2015 (Brown-band shrimpgoby) ^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (r-z) . 16 September 2018 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 24 July 2018.
2. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-fish-species-great-barrier-reef.html New fish species found in the Great Barrier Reef
3. Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Utama, I.V. (2019) Tomiyamichthys emilyae, a new species of shrimpgoby (Gobiidae) from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 33, 53-64.; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3473511
4. 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.
5. Zoological Studies . 46 . 6 . 2007 . 651–655 . Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus, a new species of gobiid fish from Indonesia . Randall, J.E. . Chen, I.S. . amp .
6. Allen, G.R. . 2015 . Descriptions of two new species of shrimpgobies (Gobiidae: Cryptocentrus and Tomiyamichthys) from Papua New Guinea . Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation . 16 . 67–81 .