Exyrias

Exyrias is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, mostly native to marine waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean with one freshwater species (Exyrias volcanus) known from the Philippines.

Exyrias
Exyrias puntang
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Exyrias D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906
Type species
Gobius puntangoides Bleeker, 1853

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:^[1]

• Exyrias akihito G. R. Allen & J. E. Randall, 2005^[2]
• Exyrias belissimus (J. L. B. Smith, 1959) (mud reef-goby)
• Exyrias ferrarisi Murdy, 1985
• Exyrias puntang (Bleeker, 1851) (puntang goby)
• Exyrias volcanus (Herre, 1927)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Exyrias". FishBase. June 2013 version.
2. Allen, Gerald R. & Randall, John E. (2005): Exyrias akihito, a new species of coral-reef goby (Gobiidae) from the western pacific. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53(2): 231-235. PDF fulltext Archived 2006-10-16 at the Wayback Machine