Exyrias

Taxobox
name = "Exyrias"


image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
subordo = Gobioidei
familia = Gobiidae
subfamilia = Gobiinae
genus = "Exyrias"
genus_authority = Jordan & Seale, 1906
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Exyrias akihito"
"Exyrias belissimus" - Mud Reef-goby
"Exyrias ferrarisi"
"Exyrias puntang" - Puntang Goby

"Exyrias" is a genus of marine gobies with four described species found throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These are relatively large gobies, typically found in turbid estuarine waters (although the recently described "Exyrias akihito" is a species of clearer water associated with coral reefs).

References

* (2005): "Exyrias akihito", a new species of coral-reef goby (Gobiidae) from the western pacific. "Raffles Bulletin of Zoology" 53(2): 231-235. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/53/53rbz231-235.pdf PDF fulltext]
* [http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/NomenClature/ScientificNameSearchList.php?crit1_fieldname=SYNONYMS.SynGenus&crit1_fieldtype=CHAR&crit1_operator=EQUAL&crit1_value=exyrias&crit2_fieldname=SYNONYMS.SynSpecies&crit2_fieldtype=CHAR&crit2_operator=contains&crit2_value=&group=summary&backstep=-2 FishBase entry for "Exyrias"]