''Antilligobius'' is a

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of goby. It contains only the species ''Antilligobius nikkiae'', the sabre goby, which is native to deep waters of the western

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.Van Tassell, J.L., Tornabene, L. & Colin, P.L. (2012): Review of the western Atlantic species of ''Bollmannia'' (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini) with the description of a new allied genus and species. ''aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 18 (2): 61-94.'' The

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honours Nicole Laura Schrier, the daughter of the owner of the Sea Aquarium in

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, who collected many of the

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specimens.

References

Gobiidae Monotypic Perciformes genera Fish described in 2012 {{Gobiidae-stub