Taenioides buchanani
Taenioides buchanani, the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of goby found in the Indian Ocean along the east coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. This species can reach a length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in) TL.[1]
| Taenioides buchanani | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Taenioides |
| Species: | T. buchanani |
| Binomial name | |
| Taenioides buchanani (Day, 1873) | |
Etymology
The gobyeel is named in honor of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Taenioides buchanani" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- 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 8 March 2022.
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
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