''Taenioides buchanani'', the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of

goby Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have b ...

found in the Indian Ocean along the east coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. This species can reach a length of TL.

Etymology

The gobyeel is named in honor of

Francis Hamilton-Buchanan Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist whil ...

(1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.

References

*Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. buchanani Taxa named by Francis Day Fish described in 1873 {{Gobiiformes-stub