Marine Species Traits - Fusigobius neophytus (Günther, 1877)

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Fusigobius neophytus (Günther, 1877)

To FishBase images (<i>Coryphopterus neophytus</i>, Israel, by Randall, J.E.)

To FishBase images (Coryphopterus neophytus, Israel, by Randall, J.E.)

AphiaID

219467 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219467)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Fusigobius Whitley, 1930

Original name

Gobius neophytus Günther, 1877

Synonymised names

Coryphopterus neophytus (Günther, 1877) · unaccepted

Eviota woolacottae Whitley, 1958 · unaccepted

Fusigobius africanus Smith, 1959 · unaccepted

Fusigobius neophyta (Günther, 1877) · unaccepted

Fusigobius neophytus africanis Smith, 1959 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Fusigobius neophytus africanus Smith, 1959 · unaccepted

Gobius neophytus Günther, 1877 · unaccepted

Thalassogobius corallinus Herre, 1953 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Fusigobius neophytus africanus Smith, 1959 accepted as Fusigobius neophytus (Günther, 1877)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Gobius neophytus Günther, 1877) Günther, A. (1877). Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee. Band II, Heft. VI. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Band IV, Heft XIII. F. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg. Journal des Museum Godeffroy. v. 4 (no. 13): 169-216, Pls. 101-120. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Fusigobius neophytus (Günther, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219467 on 2025-05-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-08-05 12:46:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Gobius neophytus Günther, 1877) Günther, A. (1877). Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee. Band II, Heft. VI. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Band IV, Heft XIII. F. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg. Journal des Museum Godeffroy. v. 4 (no. 13): 169-216, Pls. 101-120. [details]

original description (of Eviota woolacottae Whitley, 1958) Whitley, G. P. (1958). A new gudgeon from the New Hebrides (Pisces Gobiomoridae). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. v. 1956-57: 85-87. [details]

original description (of Thalassogobius corallinus Herre, 1953) Herre, A. W. C. T. (1953). Tropical Pacific gobies with vomerine teeth. Philippine Journal of Science. v. 82 (no. 2): 181-188. [details]

original description (of Fusigobius neophytus africanus Smith, 1959) Smith, J. L. B. (1959). Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae and Kraemeriidae of the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. 13: 185-225, Pls. 9-13. [details]

basis of record Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 51: 45-78. [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]