Blunt-snouted clingfish

For the genus of plants, see Gouania.

Blunt-snouted clingfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Genus: Gouania
Species:
G. willdenowi
Binomial name
Gouania willdenowi
(A. Risso, 1810)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lepadogaster willdenowi Risso, 1810
  • Rupisuga nicensis Swainson, 1839
  • Lepadogaster latirostris Costa, 1850
  • Leptopterygius coccoi Troschel, 1860

The blunt-snouted clingfish (Gouania willdenowi) is a species of clingfish found along the western Mediterranean Sea coasts from Spain to Italy. This species grows to a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL.[2] The blunt-nosed clingfish is a little known species of shallow water along the littoral of the northern Mediterranean from Alicante to Sicily. Its range was formerly thought to extend to Israel and Syria in the east; however this was actually several closely related cryptic species.[3] It can survive out of the water and occurs only among intertidal pebbles and sand.[1]

This species was formerly the only known member of Gouania; however, a 2020 study described three new species and resurrected a synonym of G. willdenowi (G. pigra) to species status.[4][3] It was described as Lepadogaster willdenowi by Antoine Risso in 1810 from a type locality of Nice, France,[5] it was subsequently placed in the monotypic genus Covania by Giovanni Domenico Nardo in 1833 and this was corrected to Gouania in 1864 by Giovanni Canestrini.[6] The generic name honours the French botanist Antoine Gouan (1733-1821), Nardo's original name Covania being a latinisation of Gouan, while the specific name honours another botanist, the German Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812).[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Herler, J.; Williams, J.T.; Kovacic, M. (2014). "Gouania willdenowi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T194960A49087174. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T194960A49087174.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gouania willdenowi". FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. ^ a b Wagner, Maximilian; Kovačić, Marcelo; Koblmüller, Stephan (2021). "Unravelling the taxonomy of an interstitial fish radiation: Three new species of Gouania (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and redescriptions of G. willdenowi and G. pigra". Journal of Fish Biology. 98 (1): 64–88. doi:10.1111/jfb.14558. ISSN 1095-8649. PMC 7821206. PMID 32985685.
  4. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Gouania". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Lepadogaster willdenowi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  6. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Gouania". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  7. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (7 February 2019). "Order GOBIESOCIFORMES (Clingfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 June 2019.


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