Stigmatogobius

Stigmatogobius is a genus of fish in the goby subfamily, Gobionellinae. It is distributed in the Indo-Pacific region, specifically the Indo-Malayan zone. Species can be found along the substrate or hiding in plant litter in freshwater habitat, and sometimes in estuary habitat, such as mangrove stands.[1]

Stigmatogobius
Stigmatogobius sadanundio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Stigmatogobius
Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Gobius pleurostigma
Bleeker, 1849
Species

7-8, see text

Several species are of commercial importance as aquarium pets. In the trade they are known generally as knight gobies, and the individual species are often confused and misidentified.[1]

The genus is characterized and distinguished from other gobionellines by characters such as the transverse arrangement of sensory papillae, the number of fin rays and scales, and the shape of the tongue, gut, and genital papilla. The fish are mainly pale-colored with dark spots or a dark bar.[1]

Species

There are seven[2] or eight[1] species in the genus:

References
  1. Larson, H. K. (2005). A revision of the gobiid genus Stigmatogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae), with descriptions of two new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 16(4), 347-70.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Stigmatogobius in FishBase. June 2013 version.


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