Oxyurichthys

Oxyurichthys is a genus of fish in the subfamily Gobionellinae, commonly known as arrowfin gobies. They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans; one species is also known from the western Atlantic Ocean.^[1] Most species live in shallow waters under 10 meters deep over fine substrates such as silt.^[1]

Oxyurichthys
Oxyurichthys cornutus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Gobionellinae
Genus:	Oxyurichthys Bleeker, 1857
Type species
Gobius belosso Bleeker, 1854
Synonyms
Gobiichthys Klunzinger, 1871 Paeneapocryptes Herre, 1927 Pselaphias Jordan & Seale, 1906

Species

The following species are recognized in the genus Oxyurichthys:^[2]

• Oxyurichthys auchenolepis Bleeker, 1876 (scaly-nape tentacle goby)
• Oxyurichthys chinensis Pezold & Larson, 2015
• Oxyurichthys cornutus McCulloch & Waite, 1918 (horned tentacle goby)
• Oxyurichthys guibei J.L.B. Smith, 1959
• Oxyurichthys heisei Pezold, 1998
• Oxyurichthys keiensis (J.L.B. Smith, 1938) (Kei goby)
• Oxyurichthys lemayi (J.L.B. Smith, 1947) (lace goby)
• Oxyurichthys limophilus Pezold & Larson, 2015
• Oxyurichthys lonchotus (O. P. Jenkins, 1903) (speartail mudgoby)
• Oxyurichthys microlepis (Bleeker, 1849) (maned goby)
• Oxyurichthys mindanensis (Herre, 1927)
• Oxyurichthys notonema (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (threadfin mudgoby)

• Oxyurichthys omanensis Fatah Zarei, Saud M. Al Jufaili and Esmaeili. 2022^[3]

• Oxyurichthys ophthalmonema (Bleeker, 1856) (eyebrow goby)
• Oxyurichthys papuensis (Valenciennes, 1837) (frogface goby)
• Oxyurichthys paulae Pezold, 1998 (jester goby)
• Oxyurichthys petersii (Klunzinger, 1871)
• Oxyurichthys stigmalophius (Mead & J. E. Böhlke, 1958) (spotfin goby)
• Oxyurichthys takagi Pezold, 1998
• Oxyurichthys tentacularis (Valenciennes, 1837)
• Oxyurichthys uronema (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (longtail tentacle goby)
• Oxyurichthys viridis Herre, 1927
• Oxyurichthys visayanus Herre, 1927
• Oxyurichthys zeta Pezold & Larson, 2015

References

1. Pezold F (1998). "Three new species of Oxyurichthys (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans". Copeia. 1998 (3): 687–695. doi:10.2307/1447798. JSTOR 1447798.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Oxyurichthys". FishBase. November 2021 version.
3. Fatah Zarei, Saud M. Al Jufaili and Hamid Reza Esmaeili. 2022. Oxyurichthys omanensis sp. nov., A New Eyebrow Goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Oman. Zootaxa. 5182(4);361-376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.4.3