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Valenciennea sexguttata (Valenciennes, 1837) 
AphiaID: 219598

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Gobiidae (Family) > Gobiinae (Subfamily) > Valenciennea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Valenciennea Bleeker, 1868
Synonymised
taxa
  Eleotriodes pallidus Klausewitz, 1960
Eleotriodes sexguttatus (Valenciennes, 1837)
Eleotris lantzii Thominot, 1878
Eleotris sexguttata Valenciennes, 1837
Salarigobius stuhlmannii Pfeffer, 1893
Valencienea sexguttata (Valenciennes, 1837) (misspelling)
Valenciennea sexguttatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (misspelling)
Valenciennea violifera Jordan & Seale, 1906
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los BaƱos, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English sixspot goby  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Cargados Carajos [details]
Chagos [details]
East Africa [details]
Eritrea [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Inhabits areas with fine, silty, coralline sands. Usually in pairs and live in a burrow under rocks. Commonly seen in aggregations over large areas in lagoons of atolls. [details]

Remark: In Cuvier & Valenciennes. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219598
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Valenciennea sexguttata (Valenciennes, 1837). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219598 on 2013-05-25
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