Pandaka (fish)
Pandaka is a genus of fish in the goby subfamily, Gobionellinae, native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of Asia and the western Pacific Ocean.[1] Some species in the genus are among the smallest fish in the world;[2] the male P. pygmaea can be just 9 mm (0.35 in) in standard length at maturity.[3]
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| Pandaka pygmaea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobionellinae |
| Genus: | Pandaka Herre, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Pandaka pusilla Herre, 1927 | |
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The genus name is a word for a dwarf in the a number of languages of the Philippines and refers to the small size of these fish.[4]
Species
There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Pandaka bipunctata H. L. Wu, 2008
- Pandaka lidwilli (McCulloch, 1917) (dwarf tiger goby)
- Pandaka pusilla Herre, 1927 (tiny pygmy-goby)
- Pandaka pygmaea Herre, 1927 (dwarf pygmy goby)
- Pandaka rouxi (M. C. W. Weber, 1911) (Roux's pygmy-goby)
- Pandaka silvana (Barnard, 1943) (dwarfgoby)
- Pandaka trimaculata Akihito & Meguro, 1975
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pandaka in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- Mukai, T., et al. (2004). Genetic and geographical differentiation of Pandaka gobies in Japan. Ichthyological Research 51(3), 222-27.
- Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Pandaka pygmaea. FishBase. 2011.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
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