Abstract
Gobies of the subfamily Amblyopinae are described from Nha Trang and Van Phong bays (South China Sea, Vietnam), where five genera and five species (including a new genus and species Biendongella iljini gen et sp. n.) are recorded. The second species of a new genus, B. hemilissa gen et sp. n., is described from the waters to the south of the Anambas Islands (South China Sea, Indonesia). Another new genus and species, Sovvityazius acer gen et sp. n., is described from the Pacific waters of the Philippines. Both new genera belong to the genera group Taenioides. The species Trypauchenichthys larsonae registered previously only off North Australia is recorded in the Pacific waters of the Philippines.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Alcock, A.W., Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer Investigator, Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding. No. 20. On some undescribed shore-fishes from the Bay of Bengal, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1890, vol. 6, pp. 425–443.
Birdsong, R.S., Murdy, E.O., and Pezold, F.L., A study of the vertebral column and median fin osteology in gobioid fishes with comments on gobioid relationships, Bull. Mar. Sci., 1988, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 174–214.
Bleeker, P., Diagnostische beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Sumatra. T. I–IV, Natuurwet. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, 1852, vol. 3, pp. 569–608.
Bleeker, P., Dertiende bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Borneo, Acta Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerlandica, 1860, vol. 8, pp. 1–64.
Bloch, M.E., Schneider, J.G. and Blochii, M.E., Systema Ichthyologiae Iconibus cx Illustratum. Post Obitum Auctoris Opus Inchoatum Absolvit, Correxit, Interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo, Berolini: Bibliopolio Sanderiano Comm., 1801.
Chabanaud, P., Sur diverses espéces du genre Taenioides Lacep. (Poissons Gobiformes), Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., 1927, vol. 52, pp. 404–415.
Koumans, F.P., Gobioidea, in Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, Weber, M. and de Beaufort, L., Eds., Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1953, vol. 10.
Kukuev, E.I., Systematics and distribution of the daggertooths (Anotopteridae, Aulopiformes) in the World Ocean, Vopr. Ikhtiol., 1998, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 745–759.
Murdy, E.O., A taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the oxudercine gobies (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae), Rec. Austral. Mus., 1989, no. 11, pp. 1–93.
Murdy, E.O., A review of Amblyotrypauchen (Teleostei: Gobiidae), a genus of blind amblyopine gobies, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 2003, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 330–336.
Murdy, E.O., A revision of the gobiid fish genus Trypauchen (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae), Zootaxa, 2006, no. 1343, pp. 55–68.
Murdy, E.O., Trypauchenichthys larsonae, a new species of amblyopine goby from Australia (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) with a key to the species in the genus, Aqua Int. J. Ichthyol., 2008a, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 59–68.
Murdy, E.O., Paratrypauchen, a new genus for Trypauchen microcephalus Bleeker, 1860, (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) with a re-description of Ctenotrypauchen chinensis Steindachner, 1867, and a key to “Trypauchen” group of genera, Aqua Int. J. Ichthyol., 2008b, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 115–128.
Murdy, E.O. and Ferraris, C.J. Jr., Gymnoamblyopus novaeguineae, a new genus and species of worm goby from Papua New Guinea (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae), Zootaxa, 2003, no. 150, pp. 1–6.
Murdy, E.O. and Shibukawa, K., A revision of the gobiid fish genus Odontamblyopus (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae), Ichthyol. Res., 2001, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 31–43.
Murdy, E.O. and Shibukawa, K., A revision of the IndoPacific fish genus Caragobius (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae), Zootaxa, 2003, no. 301, pp. 1–12.
Nguyen, H.P., Nguyen, N.T., Nguyen, P.D., and Do, T.N.N., Check List of Marine Fishes in Vietnam, Hanoi: Sci. Tech., 1997, vol. 4.
Nguyen, N.T., Fauna of Vietnam. Gobioidei, Hanoi: Sci. Tech., 2000.
Prokofiev, A.M. and Kukuev, E.I., Systematics and distribution of black swallowers of the genus Chiasmodon (Perciformes: Chiasmodontidae), J. Ichthyol., 2009, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 899–939.
Randall, J.E. and Lim, K.K.P., A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea, Raffles Bull. Zool., 2000, no. 8, pp. 569–667.
Shibukawa, K. and Murdy, E.O., A re-description of the eel goby Trypauchenopsis (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) with comments on relationships, Copeia, 2012, no. 3, pp. 527–534.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Original Russian Text © A.M. Prokofiev, 2015, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 655–663.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Prokofiev, A.M. An overview of gobies of the subfamily Amblyopinae (Gobiidae) from the Western South China Sea (Vietnam and Indonesia) and Pacific waters of the Philippines. J. Ichthyol. 55, 783–791 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294521506017X
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294521506017X