Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Gobiaria
Ordo: Gobiiformes
Subordo: Gobioidei
Familia: Gobiidae
Subfamilia: Gobiinae
Genus: Corcyrogobius
Species: C. liechtensteini – C. lubbocki
Name
Corcyrogobius Miller, 1972
Type species: Gobius liechtensteini ♂ Kolombatovic 1891. Type by original designation (also monotypic).
References
Miller, P.J. 1972. Generic status and redescription of the Mediterranean fish Gobius liechtensteini Kolombatovic, 1891 (Telostei: Gobioidea), and its affinities with certain American and Indo-Pacific gobies. Journal of Natural History 6(4): 395–407.
Hoese, D.F. & Larson, H.K. 2010. Description of two new species of the genus Priolepis from the Indo-Pacific with redescription of Priolepis profunda and Priolepis psygmophilia. Ichthyological Research 57: 373–388.
ITIS
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Corcyrogobius is a genus of gobies native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[1]
Corcyrogobius liechtensteini (Kolombatović, 1891) (Liechtenstein's goby)
Corcyrogobius lubbocki P. J. Miller, 1988
Corcyrogobius pulcher Kovačić et al., 2020 [2]
Discovery and naming
The first species of the genus Corcyrogobius was first described by the Croatian zoologist Juraj Kolombatović in 1891, based on twelve specimen he collected off the coast of Korcula, an adriatic island now belonging to Croatia. He first described this new species as Gobius liechtensteini. In 1972, Peter J. Miller, a British ichthyologist, recognized four of the original twelve specimen, which Kolombatović had supposed to be juvenile stages of the species lifecycle, to actually belong to a different species, Odondebuenia balearica. Miller redescribed the species, based on the remaining eight specimen, under the name Corcyrogobius liechtensteini, meaning "Liechtenstein's goby from Korcula".[3]
In 1988, the very same Peter J. Miller discovered two older samples of gobiids collected for the British Museum of Natural History off the coast of Annobon, Equatorial Guinea, in 1927, to belong to the same genus of Corcyrogobius. Matching the traits with specimen collected in 1976 in Prampram, Ghana, he described another species: Corcyrogobius lubbocki, meaning Lubbock's goby from Korcula.[4]
Lastly, in 2020, an ichthyological expedition to the Île de Ngor off the coast of Senegal recovered two specimen of another Corcyrogobius species. Corcyrogobius pulcher, meaning "Beautiful goby from Korcula", was genetically analysed and placed in the genus' phylogenetic tree as the outgroup to the more closely related species C. lubbocki and C. liechtensteini.[5]
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Corcyrogobius". FishBase. June 2013 version.
Kovacic, Marcelo; Wirtz, Peter; Schliewen, Ulrich K. (2020): A new species of Corcyrogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Île de Ngor, Senegal. Zootaxa, 4834(1), pp.zootaxa-4834.
Ahnelt, H. (2005): Designation of a neotype for Gobius liechtensteini KOLOMBATOVIC, 1981 (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 106B, S.35-39
Ahnelt, H. (2005): Designation of a neotype for Gobius liechtensteini KOLOMBATOVIC, 1981 (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 106B, S.35-39
Kovacic, Marcelo; Wirtz, Peter; Schliewen, Ulrich K. (2020): A new species of Corcyrogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Île de Ngor, Senegal. Zootaxa, 4834(1), pp.zootaxa-4834.
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