Pseudogobiopsis lumbantobing

Pseudogobiopsis lumbantobing is a species of goby from the subfamily Gobionellinae which is found in Java and Sumatra where it occurs in freshwater rivers and streams at altitudes of 5–22 metres (16–72 ft), with substrates made up of sand, gravel, rock and boulders and where there may be growths of algae and aquatic macrophytes. This species had been traded in the European aquarium trade since 2001.[1] The specific name honours the ichthyologist Daniel Lumbantobing of the Florida Museum of Natural History who showed the first specimens which he had collected to Helen K. Larson in 2012, this resolved the identity of the orange-spotted gobies which had been recorded in the European aquarium trade and which aquarists had sent pictures to Larson for identification.[2]

Pseudogobiopsis lumbantobing
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Pseudogobiopsis
Species:
P. lumbantobing
Binomial name
Pseudogobiopsis lumbantobing
Larson, Hadiaty and Hubert, 2017

References
  1. Helen K. Larson; Renny K. Hadiaty & Nicolas Hubert (2017). "A New Species of the Gobiid Fish Genus Pseudogobiopsis (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobionellinae) from Indonesia". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 65: 175–180.
  2. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 August 2018.


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