''Trypauchen pelaeos'' is a species of

eel goby Amblyopinae is a subfamily of elongated mud-dwelling gobies commonly called eel gobies or worm gobies; it has been regarded as a subfamily of the family Gobiidae, while the 5th edition ''Fishes of the World'' classifies it as a subfamily of th ...

found in Indochina and southern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It is reddish in color and has an elongated body with the anal,

caudal Caudal may refer to: Anatomy * Caudal (anatomical term) (from Latin ''cauda''; tail), used to describe how close something is to the trailing end of an organism * Caudal artery, the portion of the dorsal aorta of a vertebrate that passes into the ...

, and the two dorsal fins fused together with membranous structures. It is similar in appearance and habits to the closely related burrowing goby, ''

Trypauchen vagina ''Trypauchen vagina'', commonly known as the burrowing goby, is a species of eel goby found in the Indo-Pacific region. It has an elongated body about in length. It is reddish-pink in color and possesses distinctive pouches in the upper edges ...

''. ''T. pelaeos'' was first described by

Edward O. Murdy Edward is an English language, English given name. It is derived from the Old English, Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements ''wikt:ead#Old English, ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and ''wikt:weard#Old English, weard'' "gua ...

in 2006. The generic name is derived from Ancient Greek τρύπα (''trupa'', "hole") and αυχενος (''aukhenos'', "neck"). The specific name means "mud-dweller", from πηλός (''pélos'', "mud").

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Fish described in 2006 Trypauchen {{Oxudercidae-stub