''Chaenogobius'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

gobies Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than in length, and th ...

native to

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an ...

and the western

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * ''

Chaenogobius annularis ''Chaenogobius annularis'', the fork-tongued goby, is a species of goby from the subfamily Gobionellinae which is found in the brackish waters of temperate eastern Asia. It is the type species of the genus ''Chaenogobius''. Description ''Chaenog ...

'' T. N. Gill, 1859 (Forktongue goby) * ''

Chaenogobius gulosus ''Chaenogobius'' is a genus of gobies native to Asia and the western Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * ''Chaenogobius annularis ''Chaenogobius annularis'', the fork-tongued goby, is a specie ...

'' (

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, 1882)

References

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