Clariger

Clariger is a genus of gobies native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean from coastal waters and tide pools around Japan and Taiwan.

Clariger
C. taiwanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Clariger
D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
Type species
Clariger cosmurus
D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

  • Clariger chionomaculatus Shiogaki, 1988
  • Clariger cosmurus D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
  • Clariger exilis Snyder, 1911
  • Clariger papillosus Ebina, 1935
  • Clariger taiwanensis Jang-Liaw, Y. H. Gong & I. S. Chen, 2012[2]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Clariger in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. Jang-Liaw, N.-H., Gong, Y.-H. & Chen, I-S. (2012): A new marine gobiid species of the genus Clariger Jordan & Snyder (Gobiidae, Teleostei) from Taiwan. ZooKeys, 199: 13–21, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.199.2645


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