''Gobius'' 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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Gobiidae Gobiidae or gobies is a family (biology), family of bony fish in the order (biology), order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising over 2,000 species in more than 200 genus, genera. Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typ ...

native to fresh,

brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...

and marine waters of and around

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and

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

. It contains the typical gobies, being the

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of the formerly recognised

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Gobiinae and

and the namesake genus of its

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Gobiiformes Gobiiformes (meaning "goby-like") is an order of percomorph fish containing three suborders: Apogonoidei, Trichonotoidei, and Gobioidei. The order was formerly defined as containing only the gobies (now placed within the Gobioidei). However, ...

Species

There are currently 30 recognized species in this genus: * '' Gobius ater'' Bellotti, 1888 (Bellotti's goby) * '' Gobius ateriformis'' Brito & P. J. Miller, 2001 * '' Gobius auratus'' A. Risso, 1810 (Golden goby) * '' Gobius bontii'' Bleeker, 1849 * '' Gobius bucchichi'' Steindachner, 1870 (Bucchich's goby) * '' Gobius cobitis''

Pallas Pallas may refer to: Astronomy * 2 Pallas asteroid ** Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas * Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon Mythology * Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena * Pa ...

, 1814 (Giant goby) * '' Gobius couchi'' P. J. Miller & El-Tawil, 1974 (Couch's goby) * '' Gobius cruentatus'' J. F. Gmelin, 1789 (Red-mouthed goby) * '' Gobius fallax'' Sarato, 1889 (Sarato's goby) * '' Gobius gasteveni'' P. J. Miller, 1974 (Steven's goby) * '' Gobius geniporus''

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; ; or ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ...

, 1837 (Slender goby) * '' Gobius hypselosoma'' Bleeker, 1867 * '' Gobius incognitus'' Kovačić & Šanda, 2016 * '' Gobius kolombatovici'' Kovačić & P. J. Miller, 2000 * '' Gobius koseirensis'' Klunzinger, 1871 * '' Gobius leucomelas'' W. K. H. Peters, 1868 * ''

Gobius niger The black goby (''Gobius niger'') is a species of Acanthopterygii, ray-finned fish found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It inhabits estuary, estuaries, lagoons, and inshore water over seagrass and algae. It feeds on ...

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...

(Black goby) * '' Gobius ophiocephalus'' Pallas, 1814 (Grass goby) * '' Gobius paganellus''

(Rock goby) * '' Gobius roulei'' F. de Buen, 1928 (Roule's goby) * '' Gobius rubropunctatus'' Delais, 1951 * '' Gobius salamansa'' Iglésias & Frotté, 2015 (Salamansa goby) * '' Gobius scorteccii''

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, 1961 * '' Gobius senegambiensis'' Metzelaar, 1919 * '' Gobius strictus'' Fage, 1907 (Schmidt's goby) * '' Gobius tetrophthalmus'' Brito & P. J. Miller, 2001 * '' Gobius tropicus''

Osbeck Pehr Osbeck (1723 – 23 December 1805) was a Sweden, Swedish explorer, natural history, naturalist and an Apostles of Linnaeus, apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was born in the parish of Ale Municipality, Hålanda on Västergötland and studied at ...

, 1765 (

Species inquirenda In biological classification, a ''species inquirenda'' is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century. The ter ...

) * '' Gobius vittatus'' Vinciguerra, 1883 (Striped goby) * '' Gobius xanthocephalus'' Heymer &

Zander The zander (''Sander lucioperca''), sander or pikeperch, is a species of ray-finned fish from the Family (biology), family Percidae, which also includes perch, Gymnocephalus, ruffe and Darter (fish), darter. It is found in freshwater and brackis ...

, 1992 (Yellow-headed goby) * '' Gobius xoriguer'' Iglésias, Vukić & Šanda, 2021 (Kestrel goby) ;Fossil species *''Gobius aidouri'' *''Gobius anthonyi'' *''Gobius atlanticus'' *''Gobius brivesi'' *''Gobius bucchichi'' *''Gobius crenelatus'' *''Gobius dorsolobatus'' *''Gobius ehrmanni'' *''Gobius gracilis'' *''Gobius ignotus'' *''Gobius ilovajskii'' *''Gobius jarosi'' *''Gobius macrurus'' *''Gobius obliquus'' *''Gobius orientalis'' *''Gobius preangerensis'' *''Gobius pretiosus'' *''Gobius razelaini'' *''Gobius tankilensis'' *''Gobius tenuis'' *''Gobius triangularis'' *''Gobius truncatus'' *''Gobius vicinalis'' *''Gobius weileri'' *''Gobius xiphurus''

References

Gobiinae Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Marine fish genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Gobiidae-stub