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Taenioides buchanani

Taenioides buchanani, the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of goby in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Description

Taenioides buchanani can reach a total length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in).[2]

Etymology

The species epithet is named in honour of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.[3]

References

  1. ^ Larson, H. (2019). "Taenioides buchanani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T123438566A123494852. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T123438566A123494852.en. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Taenioides buchanani" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 March 2022.