''Boleophthalmus '' is a

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mudskippers Mudskippers are any of the 23 extant species of amphibious fish from the subfamily Oxudercinae of the goby family Oxudercidae. They are known for their unusual body shapes, preferences for semiaquatic habitats, limited terrestrial locomotion and ...

native to the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

and the western

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' B. birdsongi'' Murdy, 1989 (Birdsong's mudskipper) * '' B. boddarti'' (

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, 1770) (Boddart's goggle-eyed goby) * '' B. caeruleomaculatus''

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& Waite, 1918 (Bluespotted mudskipper) * '' B. dussumieri''

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a s ...

, 1837 * '' B. pectinirostris'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

, 1758) * '' B. poti'' Polgar, Jaafar & Konstantinidis, 2013

References

Bibliography

* Eschmeyer, William N. 1990. ''Genera of Recent Fishes''. California Academy of Sciences.

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. iii + 697. . * Eschmeyer, William N. (ed.) 1998. ''Catalog of Fishes''. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, #1, vol. 1–3.

California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 ...

. 2905. . * Helfman, G., B. Collette & D. Facey: ''The diversity of fishes''. Blackwell Science, Malden, MA, 1997. * Moyle, P. & J. Cech.: ''Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology'', 4a. edició, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Any 2000. * Nelson, J.S. 2006: Fishes of the world. Quarta edició. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 601 p. . * Wheeler, A. 1985. ''The World Encyclopedia of Fishes'', 2nd edition,

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: Macdonald.

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