Evermannia

Evermannia is a genus of gobies native to the eastern central Pacific Ocean coast of the Americas from Baja California to Panama. The genus name honours the American ichthyologist Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932).[1]

Evermannia
Evermannia zosterura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Evermannia
D. S. Jordan, 1895
Type species
Gobiosoma zosterurum
D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882

Species

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

References

  1. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (d-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Evermannia in FishBase. June 2013 version.
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