| Kelloggella | |
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| Kelloggella cardinalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Kelloggella D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| Enypnias oligolepis O. P. Jenkins, 1903 | |
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Kelloggella is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. This genus is distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The genus name honours the American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867-1937) of Stanford University, the discoverer of Kelloggella cardinalis.[1]
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Kelloggella avaiki Tornabene, Deis & Erdmann, 2017 (Star-spangled goby)
- Kelloggella cardinalis D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906 (Cardinal goby)
- Kelloggella disalvoi J. E. Randall, 2009 (Disalvo's goby)
- Kelloggella oligolepis (O. P. Jenkins, 1903)
- Kelloggella quindecimfasciata (Fowler, 1946) (Central goby)
- Kelloggella tricuspidata (Herre, 1935)
References
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Kelloggella in FishBase. June 2018 version.
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