Nematogobius maindroni

Nematogobius maindroni is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Gobiidae, a true goby. It is native to the Eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Angola, it has also been re[ported from Namibia and from the islands in the Gulf of Guinea. It is common in brackish estuaries, but may migrate up rivera into freshwater.[1] The specific name honours the French entomologist Maurice Maindron (1857-1911), the collector of the type specimen from Senegal.[2]

Nematogobius maindroni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Nematogobius
Species:
N. maindroni
Binomial name
Nematogobius maindroni
(Sauvage, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Gobius maindroni Sauvage, 1880
  • Nematogobius ansorgii Boulenger, 1910

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Nematogobius maindroni in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. 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 13 September 2018.


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