''Favonigobius'' is a
genus of
gobies native to fresh, brackish and marine waters around the
Indian Ocean and the western
Pacific Ocean. Commonly called "sand gobies", this term more alternatively refers to the family
Kraemeriidae
The sand darters, were formerly considered to be a family the Kraemeriidae, but recent research has placed the nine species formerly classified under the Kraemeriidae as belonging to the family Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define th ...
, a relative of the true gobies.
Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Favonigobius aliciae''
( Herre, 1936)
* ''
Favonigobius exquisitus''
Whitley, 1950 (exquisite sand goby)
* ''
Favonigobius gymnauchen''
(