Eviota punctulata

Taxonavigation: Gobioidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Gobiaria Ordo: Gobiiformes Subordo: Gobioidei

Familia: Gobiidae
Subfamilia: Gobiinae
Genus: Eviota
Species: Eviota punctulata

Name

Eviota punctulata Jewett & Lachner, 1983

• Holotype: USNM 224550.
• Paratypes: AMNH 42918-20 (1, 7, 1); AMS I.18739-102 (3), I.18740-107 (11), I.20762-045 (1), I.21343-008 (4), I.21539-082 (1), I.22209-001 (2), I.22213-001 (5); ANSP 146492 (4), 146494-95 (4, 1); CAS 47909-11 (5, 3, 3); USNM 224541-49 (4, 3, 18, 1, 1, 4, 7, 18, 17).

Type locality: Great Astrolabe Reef, north of Vuro Island, Fiji Islands, Southern Pacific.

Vernacular names

English: Finespot Eviota, Dotted Dwarfgoby

References

• Greenfield, D.W., & Randall, J.E. 2016. A review of the dwarfgobies of Fiji, including descriptions of five new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 20: 25–75. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.48268 Reference page. 
• Jewett, S.L. & Lachner, E.A. 1983. Seven new species of the Indo-Pacific genus Eviota (Pisces: Gobiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 96(4): 780–806. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Eviota punctulata in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Eviota punctulata in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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