Kelloggella

Kelloggella is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. This genus is distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The genus name honours the American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867-1937) of Stanford University, the discoverer of Kelloggella cardinalis.[1]

Kelloggella
Kelloggella cardinalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Kelloggella
D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905
Type species
Enypnias oligolepis
O. P. Jenkins, 1903
Synonyms
  • Agunia Fowler, 1946
  • Atuona Herre, 1935
  • Itbaya Herre, 1927

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Kelloggella avaiki Tornabene, Deis & Erdmann, 2017 (Star-spangled goby)
  • Kelloggella cardinalis D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906 (Cardinal goby)
  • Kelloggella disalvoi J. E. Randall, 2009 (Disalvo's goby)
  • Kelloggella oligolepis (O. P. Jenkins, 1903)
  • Kelloggella quindecimfasciata (Fowler, 1946) (Central goby)
  • Kelloggella tricuspidata (Herre, 1935)

References
  1. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Kelloggella in FishBase. June 2018 version.


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