''Diplecogaster'' is a

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fish A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can ...

in the

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Gobiesocidae Clingfishes are ray-finned fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the suborder Gobiesocoidei of the order Blenniiformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coa ...

found in

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea 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 bound ...

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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...

and

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...

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 (biology), family Gobiesocidae found in Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean where it is found on rocks and among seagrass or shell beds. Desc ...

'' ( Bonnaterre, 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 mo ...

, 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