Revision of Species in Sicyopterus (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae) Described by de Beaufort (1912), with a First Record of Sicyopterus longifilis from Japan

• Published in: Species Diversity Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 253 - 262
• Main Authors: Maeda, Ken, Saeki, Toshifumi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 25.11.2018
• Subjects: first record; Okinawa; Sicydiinae; Sicyopterus; synonym; taxonomy

Amphidromous gobies of Sicyopterus (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae) are distributed in tropical, subtropical, and temperate streams in the Indo-Pacific region. Two species, Sicyopterus japonicus (Tanaka, 1909) and Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Pallas, 1770), are known from Japan. In the present study, two specime...