''Saurogobio'' is a genus of freshwater
ray-finned fishes
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class (biology), class of Osteichthyes, bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built ...
belonging to the
family
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Gobionidae
Gobioninae is a monophyletic family of Eurasian cyprinoid fishes. This is a species rich clade which, as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae was divided into five tribes: Gobionini, Pseudogobionini, Hemibarbini, Coreiini, and Sarcocheilichthyini. T ...
, the gudgeons. These fishes are found in eastern
Asia
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.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:
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Saurogobio dabryi''
Bleeker, 1871 (Chinese lizard gudgeon)
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Saurogobio dumerili''
Bleeker, 1871
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Saurogobio gracilicaudatus''
Yao & Yang, 1977 [Dai, Z.-Y., Zhang, E., Jiang, Z.-G. & Wang, W. (2014): Re-description of the gudgeon species ''Saurogobio gracilicaudatus'' Yao & Yang in Luo, Yue & Chen, 1977 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Chang-Jiang basin, South China, with a note on its generic classification. ''Zootaxa, 3847 (2): 283–291.'']
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Saurogobio gymnocheilus''
Lo, Yao & Chen, 1998
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Saurogobio immaculatus''
Koller, 1927
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Saurogobio lissilabris
''Saurogobio lissilabris'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the Gobionidae family and live in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1. ...
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Bănărescu & Nalbant
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The commune's name comes ...
, 1973
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Saurogobio punctatus
''Saurogobio'' is a genus of freshwater Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Gobionidae, the gudgeons. These fishes are found in eastern Asia.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genu ...
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Q.-Y. Tang, X.-B. Li, D. Yu, Zhu, B.-Q. Ding, Liu & Danley, 2018
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Saurogobio xiangjiangensis
''Saurogobio xiangjiangensis'' iis a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons. This fish is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, ...
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J. H. Tang, 1980
References
Gobionidae
Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
Fish of Asia
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