''Acentrogobius dayi'', the Day's goby, is a
species of
goby found in the Western
Indian Ocean from the Persian Gulf to
Pakistan.
Size
This species reaches a length of .
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of
Francis Day
Francis Talbot Day (2 March 1829 – 10 July 1889) was an army surgeon and naturalist in the Madras Presidency who later became the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India and Burma. A pioneer ichthyologist, he described more than three hund ...
(1829-1889), the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India,
References
Gobiidae
Taxa named by Frederik Petrus Koumans
Fish described in 1941
Fish of the Indian Ocean
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