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Oligolepis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Oligolepis

Higher classification
  
Goby

Order
  
Perciformes

Family
  
Gobiidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Oligolepis

Similar
  
Oligolepis acutipennis, Goby, Oxyurichthys, Stenogobius, Redigobius

Puntius oligolepis checkered barb


Oligolepis is a genus of fish in the goby family Gobiidae, native to marine, fresh and brackish waters of the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

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Species

There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:

  • Oligolepis acutipennis (Valenciennes, 1837) (Sharptail goby)
  • Oligolepis cylindriceps (Hora, 1923)
  • Oligolepis dasi (Talwar, Chatterjee & Dev Roy, 1982)
  • Oligolepis formosanus (Nichols, 1958)
  • Oligolepis jaarmani (M. C. W. Weber, 1913)
  • Oligolepis nijsseni (Menon & N. Govindan, 1977)
  • Oligolepis stomias (H. M. Smith, 1941)

    • References

    Oligolepis Wikipedia
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