''Drombus'' is a
genus
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of
gobies
Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising over 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than in length, and the fam ...
native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of the
Indian Ocean
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and the western
Pacific Ocean
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.
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Drombus bontii''
( Bleeker, 1849) (Occasional-shrimp goby)
* ''
Drombus dentifer''
( Hora, 1923) (Yellow drombus)
* ''
Drombus globiceps''
( Hora, 1923) (Kranji drombus)
* ''
Drombus halei''
Whitley, 1935 (Hale's drombus)
* ''
Drombus key''
(J. L. B. Smith
James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyology, ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought t ...
, 1947) (Key goby)
* ''
Drombus lepidothorax''
Whitley, 1945 (White-edge drombus)
* ''
Drombus ocyurus''
( D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1907) (Bluemarked drombus)
* ''
Drombus palackyi''
D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905
* ''
Drombus simulus''
(J. L. B. Smith
James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyology, ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought t ...
, 1960) (Pinafore goby)
* ''
Drombus triangularis''
( M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (Brown drombus)
* ''Drombus thackerae'' Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022
(otolith based fossil species)
''Drombus kranjiensis'' (originally described as ''Ctenogobius kranjiensis'') and ''
Drombus whitleyi'' are now regarded as
junior synonym
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...
s of ''Drombus globiceps'' and ''
Bathygobius fuscus'', respectively. ''
Drombus clarki'', ''
Drombus irrasus'', ''
Drombus maculipinnis'', ''
Drombus plumatus'', and ''
Drombus tutuilae'' have been transferred to the genus ''
Callogobius''.
[ ''D. bontii'' is treated as a synonym of ''Gobius bontii'' by ]FishBase
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References
Gobiidae
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by Alvin Seale
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