''Diplecogaster'' is a

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...

in the

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Gobiesocidae Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the order Gobiesociformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species in deeper seas or ...

found in

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, ...

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

and

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Afr ...

Species

There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Diplecogaster bimaculata ''Diplecogaster bimaculata'', the two-spotted clingfish, is a species of fish in the family Gobiesocidae found in Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean where it is found on rocks and among seagrass or shell beds. Description The speci ...

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Bonnaterre Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752, Aveyron – 20 September 1804, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt) was a French zoologist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic ...

, 1788) (Two-spotted clingfish) * '' Diplecogaster ctenocrypta'' Briggs, 1955 (Eastern Atlantic deep-water clingfish) * '' Diplecogaster euxinica'' Murgoci, 1964 * '' Diplecogaster megalops'' Briggs, 1955 (Big-eye clingfish) * '' Diplecogaster pectoralis'' Briggs, 1955 * '' Diplecogaster tonstricula'' R. Fricke, Wirtz & Brito, 2015 (Eastern Atlantic cleaner clingfish) Fricke, R., Wirtz, P. & Brito, A. (2015)
''Diplecogaster tonstricula'', a new species of cleaning clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Canary Islands and Senegal, eastern Atlantic Ocean, with a review of the ''Diplecogaster''-''ctenocrypta'' species-group.
''Journal of Natural History, 50 (11-12): 731-748.'' * '' Diplecogaster umutturali'' Bilecenoğlu, Yokeş &

Kovačić Kovačić ( Serbo-Croatian, sh-Cyrl, Ковачић), alternatively spelled Kovačič in Slovene and Slovak (feminine (Slovak): Kovačičová), Kovacsics in Hungarian, or transliterated as Kovacic/Kovacich/Kovachich in English, is one of the ...

, 2017 Bilecenoğlu, M., Yokeş, M.B. & Kovačić, M. (2017)
A new species of ''Diplecogaster'' (Actinopterygii: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea.
''Zoology in the Middle East, 63 (3): 210-218.''

References

Gobiesocidae Taxa named by Alec Fraser-Brunner Marine fish genera Ray-finned fish genera {{Gobiesociformes-stub