Priolepis compita

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: Priolepis

Species: Priolepis compita

Name

Priolepis compita Winterbottom, 1985

• Holotype: ROM 40241.
• Paratypes: AMS I.22909-10 (1, 2); ROM 40242 (11), 40243-51 (9), 512CS (2, c&s).

Type locality: Salomon Atoll, Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean, ca. 5°20'S 72°16'E.

Vernacular names

English: Crossroads Goby

References

• Bogorodsky, S.V., Suzuki, T. & Mal, A.O. 2016. Description of a new species of Priolepis (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea, a new record of Priolepis compita, and a distributional range extension of Trimma fishelsoni. Zootaxa 4150(2): 168–184. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.2.5. Reference page. 
• Winterbottom, R. 1985. Two new gobiid fish species (in Priolepis and Trimma) from the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63(4): 748-754. Reference page. 

Links

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