''Periophthalmus'' is a genus of fish in the family

Oxudercidae Oxudercidae is a family of gobies which consists of four subfamilies which were formerly classified under the family Gobiidae. The family is sometimes called the Gobionellidae, but Oxudercidae has priority. The species in this family have a cosmo ...

, native to coastal mangrove wood and shrubland in the

Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...

region, except for ''P. barbarus'' from the Atlantic coast of Africa. It is one of the genera commonly known as

mudskipper 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 ...

s. All ''Periophthalmus'' species are aggressive and

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Species

There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus * ''

Periophthalmus argentilineatus The barred mudskipper (''Periophthalmus argentilineatus'') or silverlined mudskipper is a species of mudskippers native to marine, fresh and brackish waters from the African coast of the Indian Ocean to the Marianas and Samoa in the western Pac ...

'' Valenciennes, 1837 (Barred mudskipper) * ''

Periophthalmus barbarus The Atlantic mudskipper (''Periophthalmus barbarus'') is a species of mudskipper native to fresh, marine and brackish waters of the tropical Atlantic coasts of Africa, including most offshore islands, through the Indian Ocean and into the western ...

'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1766) (Atlantic mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus chrysospilos'' Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1852 * ''Periophthalmus darwini'' Helen Kay Larson, Larson & Toru Takita, Takita, 2004 (Darwin's mudskipper)Larson, H.K. & Takita, T. (2004): Two New Species of ''Periophthalmus'' (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) from Northern Australia, and a re-diagnosis of ''Periophthalmus novaeguineaensis''. ''The Beagle: Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 20: 175-185.'' * ''Periophthalmus gracilis'' Walter Bruno Eggert, Eggert, 1935 (Graceful mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus kalolo'' René Primevère Lesson, Lesson, 1831 (Common mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus magnuspinnatus'' Yong-Joo Lee, Y. J. Lee, Youn Choi, Y. Choi & Ryu Bong-Suk, B. S. Ryu, 1995 * ''Periophthalmus malaccensis'' Walter Bruno Eggert, Eggert, 1935 * ''Periophthalmus minutus'' Walter Bruno Eggert, Eggert, 1935 (Minute mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus modestus'' Theodore Edward Cantor, Cantor, 1842 (Shuttles mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus novaeguineaensis'' Walter Bruno Eggert, Eggert, 1935 (New Guinea mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus novemradiatus'' (Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pearse's mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus pusing'' Zeehan Jaafar, Jaafar, Gianluca Polgar, Polgar & Yuliadi Zamroni, Zamroni, 2016Jaafar, Z., Polgar, G. & Zamroni, Y. (2016): Description of a new species of ''Periophthalmus'' (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Lesser Sunda Islands. ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 64: 278–283.'' * ''Periophthalmus spilotus'' Edward O. Murdy, Murdy & Toru Takita, Takita, 1999 * ''Periophthalmus takita'' Zeehan Jaafar, Jaafar & Helen Kay Larson, Larson, 2008 (Takita's mudskipper) * ''Periophthalmus variabilis'' Walter Bruno Eggert, Eggert, 1935 * ''Periophthalmus walailakae'' Udomsak Darumas, Darumas & Pitiwong Tantichodok, Tantichodok, 2002Darumas, U. & Tantichodok, P. (2002): A new species of mudskipper (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) from southern Thailand. ''Phuket Marine Biology Center, Research Bulletin No. 64: 101–107.'' * ''Periophthalmus waltoni'' Frederik Petrus Koumans, Koumans, 1941 (Walton's mudskipper) *''Periophthalmus weberi'' Walter Bruno Eggert, Eggert, 1935 (Weber's mudskipper) *

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q662601 Periophthalmus, Oxudercinae Mudskippers Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider