Rhinogobius mizunoi

Rhinogobius mizunoi is a species of fish in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in a freshwater stream in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.[1]

Rhinogobius mizunoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Rhinogobius
Species:
R. mizunoi
Binomial name
Rhinogobius mizunoi
T. Suzuki, K. Shibukawa & M. Aizawa, 2017

Size

This species reaches a length of 6.72 cm (2.65 in).[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Nobuhiko Mizuno, former professor of Ehime University (Japan), for his contribution to the knowledge of the ecology of freshwater fishes in Japan, particularly gobies of the Rhinogobius species.[3]

References
  1. Suzuki, T. & Shibukawa, K. & 藍澤, 正宏. (2017). Rhinogobius mizunoi, a new species of freshwater goby (teleostei: Gobiidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Natural Science. 2017. 79-95.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Rhinogobius mizunoi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 February 2023.


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