Check List 13(5): 641-645, doi: 10.15560/13.5.641
New geographical record and morphological features of the Indo‑Pacific tropical sand goby, Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker, 1854) from Iranian coast of the Makran Sea (Teleostei, Gobiidae)
Reza Sadeghi‡, Hamid Reza Esmaeili‡§, Ronald Fricke|, Helen Larson¶‡ Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran§ Ludwig‑Maximilians‑University Munich, Munich, Germany| Unaffiliated, Lauda‑Königshofen, Germany¶ Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
Corresponding author: Hamid Reza Esmaeili ( hresmaeili@shirazu.ac.ir ) Academic editor: Arturo Angulo © 2017 Reza Sadeghi, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Ronald Fricke, Helen Larson. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Sadeghi R, Esmaeili HR, Fricke R, Larson HK (2017) New geographical record and morphological features of the Indo‑Pacific tropical sand goby, Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker, 1854) from Iranian coast of the Makran Sea (Teleostei, Gobiidae). Check List 13(5): 641-645. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.641 |  |
Abstract
The Indo-Pacific tropical sand goby, Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker, 1854), is a gobiid fish native to estuarine and marine waters of the coasts of the Indian and the western Pacific Oceans. Four specimens of F. reichei were collected from Iranian coast of the Makran Sea during a fish survey in November 2015. The morphological features of these specimens are described and discussed. This is the first record of the species from Iranian waters and is an extension of its known range within the Indian Ocean.
Keywords
Gobioidei, geographical range, range extension, morphological characteristics